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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and, despite leading very different lives, remained close friends ever since. Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated actor, while Dark was a homebody who supported himself with odd jobs. Through the decades, they stayed bond...

Directed By: Treva Wurmfeld

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 32 m

Shepard & Dark

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and, despite leading very different lives, remained close friends ever since. Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated actor, while Dark was a homebody who supported himself with odd jobs. Through the decades, they stayed bond...

Directed By: Treva Wurmfeld

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
66
80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
66
80% Positive
8 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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83
Sep 25, 2013
[The] aesthetic structure creates a haunting sense of the simultaneously wonderful and sad feelings both men have about lives and loves now gone, never to be recaptured.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 21, 2013
The ups and downs of a decades-long friendship are charted with warmth and sensitivity in Shepard and Dark.
By Rob Nelson FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 21, 2013
The good-looking, easygoing doc settles in with its two subjects, offering not just an intimate perspective on the playwright's biography but some touching reflections on the comforts and perils of long-term friendship.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 21, 2013
Treva Wurmfeld's documentary addresses, and acutely analyzes, the way friendship can bend, and occasionally snap, over time.
By Nick McCarthy FULL REVIEW
67
Oct 23, 2013
There’s tension as the two hole up in Santa Fe to work on the book, but the bottom-line feeling is of two old friends, now two old men, who have found their place in each other’s complicated lives.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 24, 2013
The film points toward a rich and complicated story that only partly makes it onto the screen.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 24, 2013
Despite its unusual beginnings, the friendship doesn't offer much narrative juice.
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Release Date Sep 25, 2013
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/ShepardandDark
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Awards

Woodstock Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Florida Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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