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  • 2016
  • R
  • Zombot Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • Zombot Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary After learning that she has three months left to live, Morgan turns her protected middle class life upside down. That is when she meets Jordan, a rebellious, gender-defying artist and together they embark on an adventure of a lifetime. With a hand-held camera, the pair document their time together, creating a lasting record of what and ...

Directed By: James Bird

Written By: James Bird

  • 2016
  • R
  • Zombot Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • Zombot Pictures
  • 1 h 47 m

Honeyglue

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary After learning that she has three months left to live, Morgan turns her protected middle class life upside down. That is when she meets Jordan, a rebellious, gender-defying artist and together they embark on an adventure of a lifetime. With a hand-held camera, the pair document their time together, creating a lasting record of what and ...

Directed By: James Bird

Written By: James Bird

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50
Jun 9, 2016
Writer-director James Bird took inspiration from real-life experiences, and the story is obviously heartfelt. But despite a stylized, edgy surface, Honeyglue doesn’t stray from the well-worn weepy narrative.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 9, 2016
Jessica Tuck gives an emotionally raw performance as Morgan’s mother, and Amanda Plummer’s turn as a trailer park resident sheds more light on Jordan than all the other scenes combined.
By David Lewis FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 2, 2016
Honeyglue has a very good movie inside it, but decisions brought on by inexperience prevent it from sprouting its wings.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 2, 2016
Writer-director James Bird’s second feature tells an entirely familiar story with a dash of transvestism thrown in, but doesn’t do anything interesting with that twist – and the lumpen screenplay is drag enough.
By Harry Windsor FULL REVIEW
12
May 31, 2016
It's more interested in borrowing terminal cancer as a narrative shorthand for intensity than investigating it as a lived experience.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
10
Jun 6, 2016
Throughout, Bird’s visuals are consistently flat, and his habit of cinematographically spinning around his characters (at a dinner table, on a dance floor, in a field) is dizzying in an unpleasant, nausea-inducing way — thus creating a fitting marriage of form and content.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
10
Jun 1, 2016
[An] unintentionally hilarious tragic romance.
By Kenji Fujishima FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Zombot Pictures
Release Date Jun 3, 2016
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
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Tagline A dragonfly's lifespan is three months.... In that lifetime, our love story takes place
Website http://www.zombotpictures.com/
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