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  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Flash is a man who longs for the day when he worked as a crew member on such cinematic masterpieces as Citizen Kane. When Flash meets teenage film fanatic Cameron Kincaid, he becomes an unlikely mentor and agrees to help Cameron make a film to compete in a student competition where the top prize is a film-school scholarship and, for Came...

Directed By: Michael Schroeder

Written By: Michael Schroeder

  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2007
  • PG-13
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 47 m
Man in the Chair
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Flash is a man who longs for the day when he worked as a crew member on such cinematic masterpieces as Citizen Kane. When Flash meets teenage film fanatic Cameron Kincaid, he becomes an unlikely mentor and agrees to help Cameron make a film to compete in a student competition where the top prize is a film-school scholarship and, for Came...

Directed By: Michael Schroeder

Written By: Michael Schroeder

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
44
17% Positive
2 Reviews
58% Mixed
7 Reviews
25% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
44
17% Positive
2 Reviews
58% Mixed
7 Reviews
25% Negative
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70
A ramshackle but likeable story.
By Ray Bennett FULL REVIEW
60
Man in the Chair has few surprises. Once its machinery is humming, it settles into a soothing fable of a last hurrah.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Though they can't transcend writer-director Michael Schroeder's pointed contrivances, the actors tap into something achingly true in this valentine to Hollywood's below-the-line crafts people and society's castoffs.
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50
We'll overlook the clichéd predictability of their partnership and note that Plummer, and M. Emmet Walsh as his lonely friend, are a pleasure to watch.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
As in Cocoon, the emphasis is on sentiment, feel-good and reclaiming the elderly from the scrapheap. But the performances are nowhere near as subtle.
By Damon Wise FULL REVIEW
38
The movie works so hard at juggling its cliches that it fails to generate interest in its story.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
30
This indie drama spends a lot of time mooning over classical Hollywood cinema, but its own visual style tends toward the pointless flash of music videos.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Elbow Grease Pictures, Man in the Chair, Double Infinity Productions
Release Date Dec 7, 2007
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline It's never too late to rewrite your life's story.
Website http://www.elbowgreasepictures.net/
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Awards

Heartland International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Method Fest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Palm Beach International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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