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- 2014
- Unrated
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
- 2014
- Unrated
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
Summary An affluent matriarch (Patricia Clarkson) asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster. [IFC Films]
Directed By: Tom Dolby, Tom Williams
Written By: Tom Dolby
- 2014
- Unrated
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
- 2014
- Unrated
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
Last Weekend
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Summary An affluent matriarch (Patricia Clarkson) asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster. [IFC Films]
Directed By: Tom Dolby, Tom Williams
Written By: Tom Dolby
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Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Aside from Patricia Clarkson, who is practically this movie's reason for being, the great virtue of Last Weekend is that it's exactly as it presents itself.
Its eventual reach for warm-and-fuzzy emotional catharsis rings hollow among characters that never become more than disagreeably shallow products of unexamined privilege.
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Restrained and elegant to a fault, this first feature from co-directors Tom Dolby and Tom Williams is too muted in its catharsis and too overcrowded with superfluous characters to be fully satisfying, but the delicate central performance keeps it watchable.
All the possibilities of a richly drawn family squabble fade faster than the final days of summer.
Mostly, Last Weekend is an elegiac ode to affluence.
As a result, anyone who does bother to show up will find themselves bearing witness to unpleasant people doing and saying unpleasant things to each other while hoping in vain that the two guys from "Funny Games" will show up hoping to borrow a couple of eggs.
The filmmakers are content to idealize everyone's unchecked narcissism and idle privilege--an inquiry-free recipe for disaster in an age when the American wealth gap is wider and more detrimental than ever.
Production Company
Gran Via Productions,
Greyshack Films,
Water's End Productions
Release Date Aug 29, 2014
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating Unrated
Tagline Freedom comes from letting go.
