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  • 2011
  • R
  • Freestyle Digital Media
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Freestyle Digital Media
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Norman Long is a high school loner, a self-aware and darkly funny teen who’s just trying to handle his daily existence. In the wake of his mother’s sudden death, Norman must now also deal with the reality that his father is starting to lose his battle with stomach cancer. Norman, depressed and angry, unintentionally gets caught in a lie ...

Directed By: Jonathan Segal

Written By: Talton Wingate

  • 2011
  • R
  • Freestyle Digital Media
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Freestyle Digital Media
  • 1 h 39 m

Norman

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Norman Long is a high school loner, a self-aware and darkly funny teen who’s just trying to handle his daily existence. In the wake of his mother’s sudden death, Norman must now also deal with the reality that his father is starting to lose his battle with stomach cancer. Norman, depressed and angry, unintentionally gets caught in a lie ...

Directed By: Jonathan Segal

Written By: Talton Wingate

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
60
64% Positive
7 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
9% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
60
64% Positive
7 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review

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75
Oct 19, 2011
For me, Richard Jenkins is the heart of Norman. How often I've admired him; even in unworthy roles, he has such strength, he never seems the need to try.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 20, 2011
Norman may not conquer the box office, but it will certainly be a worthy calling card for its director and its leading man.
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70
Oct 3, 2011
Recalls last year's "World's Greatest Dad," similarly using a snowballing fib to lampoon the ambulance-chasing relationship between morbidity and celebrity. But unlike that primarily satirical exercise, Norman gradually ditches the snark in favor of poignant, understated dramatics.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 27, 2011
Norman gets most of its punch from two terrific performances.
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58
Oct 19, 2011
Chances are, Norman would have seemed like a retread whenever it came out, but it does the movie no favors to release it in the shadow of "Terri" and "Submarine," both far more compelling portraits of high-school loners, and both released to DVD in the last few weeks.
By Sam Adams FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 18, 2011
Although Norman, shot on location in Spokane and scored by singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, succeeds in fleshing out its troubled main character, the actions of his peers are consistently harder to accept.
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38
Oct 19, 2011
Alternately maudlin and snarky, Norman just doesn't risk enough, and can be consigned to the status of what the school drama geek would call "some contemporary, obscure, teen-angst thing."
By Bill Weber FULL REVIEW

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Production Company North by Northwest Entertainment
Release Date Oct 21, 2011
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.facebook.com/pages/NORMAN-the-movie/174579794473
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Awards

Woodstock Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
San Diego Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Breckenridge Festival of Film
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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