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  • 2011
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary A terrific cast will hold you spellbound in this one of a kind seductive thriller from the screenwriter of The Recruit. The last thing washed-up jazz musician Nate Pool wanted to do was betray sinister gangster Happy Shannon. But it may be the last thing he does unless he can deliver Lily, a beautiful and mysterious carnival sideshow att...

Directed By: Mitch Glazer

Written By: Mitch Glazer

  • 2011
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m

Passion Play

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
22
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary A terrific cast will hold you spellbound in this one of a kind seductive thriller from the screenwriter of The Recruit. The last thing washed-up jazz musician Nate Pool wanted to do was betray sinister gangster Happy Shannon. But it may be the last thing he does unless he can deliver Lily, a beautiful and mysterious carnival sideshow att...

Directed By: Mitch Glazer

Written By: Mitch Glazer

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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18% Positive
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27% Mixed
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55% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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18% Positive
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27% Mixed
3 Reviews
55% Negative
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65
May 5, 2011
Fox and Rourke embody Lily and Nate's lost souls with vulnerability that's at once strikingly sincere and strange, particularly for two actors renowned for their impunity both on and off screen.
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50
May 3, 2011
The reality is that Passion Play has a few good ideas that simply don't hold together. More of a miscalculation than an outright dud, it takes the form of a wildly surreal western fantasy, something that Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo") could have executed with more rigorous invention.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW

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45% Negative
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May 11, 2011
This underworld fairy tale is so soggy and sentimental it's like a new genre: Hallmark noir.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
30
May 2, 2011
Perversely eccentric and frequently inert, screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directorial debut, Passion Play, will benefit from some of the well-known names attached, but the near-painful hipness of the production will yield poisonous word of mouth.
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May 5, 2011
Passion Play doesn't overreach so much as it overindulges in aimless pacing, inert acting, and a romance maudlin enough to make "Twilight" look restrained.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
10
May 5, 2011
You might reasonably assume that any movie starring Mr. Rourke and Mr. Murray would have to have something to recommend it. But aside from a haunting musical interlude, in which Mr. Rourke, with pathetic ineptitude, mimes playing a trumpet, Passion Play is barely palatable.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
10
May 5, 2011
Inexplicably filmed in a handful of styles - including, bizarrely, obviously processed shots - by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Passion Play would be midnight-movie fodder if it weren't so drearily wrapped up in its wounded-male aesthetic and a clumsy approach to art-movie moodiness that was abandoned in the '80s.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Annapurna Productions, Rebecca Wang Entertainment
Release Date May 6, 2011
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
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Tagline Love Is Stronger Than Death
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/passion-play.6286/
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