- Summary:
- Director: Leland Orser
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 9
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Mixed: 4 out of 9
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Negative: 2 out of 9
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80This intense drama co-starring Jeanne Tripplehorn and writer-director Leland Orser is at times too minimalistic for its own good, but it has a powerful emotional immediacy that fully grips the viewer by the time it reaches its wrenching conclusion.
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75Sensitively written and carefully directed with keenly observed nuance by Leland Orser, who also plays the grief-stricken husband driven to the brink of madness by the sudden death of his son, it’s a film that touches the heart with the tenderness of understatement.
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Sep 26, 201375On the surface, this may seem like a bleak film, because it's so raw. But ultimately this is a movie about the mysterious ways in which we find a path toward healing, and its beautiful final moments stay with you.
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60Acute emotional honesty and a frustrating narrative coyness coincide in Morning.
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40The movie gets too claustrophobic, while its noble attempt to take on suffering remains laudable.
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Sep 24, 201340As an exercise in grief, Orser’s drama is affecting, exhausting and something of a shortcut.
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10It's a mannered, over-the-top approximation of real anguish and hopelessness that's so phony that it's borderline insulting to those who've truly experienced such tragedy.
