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- 2021
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 23 m
- 2021
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 23 m
Summary Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America's largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.
Directed By: Lance Oppenheim
- 2021
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 23 m
- 2021
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 23 m
Some Kind of Heaven
73
4.5
Where to Watch
Summary Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America's largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.
Directed By: Lance Oppenheim
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
73
83% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
17% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
73
83% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
17% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Some Kind Of Heaven is a surreal, visually sublime slice of life that offers escapism and subverts it in the same breath, an enduring portrait of a particular subculture the likes of which I haven’t seen probably since Wildwood, NJ. I spent virtually the entire 83 minutes laughing, slapping my forehead, or both.
All this seriousness about love, loss and the human needs that start up early and continue until the end aren’t without a sense of fun. Some Kind of Heaven’s glib punchlines (like its title) and aesthetic choices (like a voyeuristic camera and thrillery score accompanying Dennis’ more slimy schemes) work best when they’re paired with some nicely dry moments of undermining honesty.
It’d be easy to mistake the director’s deadpan observation for mocking, but the space he holds for the darker aspects of his characters’ individual stories helps to puncture any cultivated cutesyness.
Some Kind of Heaven effortlessly blends humor and pathos into a memorable and at times unsettling study on where life’s trajectory might land us, and that is a concept that deserves more than mild contemplation.
“Heaven” isn’t exactly an infomercial, but it’s not much deeper than that.
Oppenheim doesn’t waste much space on the upside. He aims straight for the undergrowth, and treats the Villages as one big Carl Hiaasen novel waiting to happen.
The film is most tragic and humorous when hints of the outside world break through the suffocatingly cheerful façade of the Villages.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
4.5
36% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
4.5
36% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
9% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
55% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
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Production Company
30WEST,
Los Angeles Media Fund (LAMF),
Protozoa Pictures,
The New York Times,
To Be Formed
Release Date Jan 15, 2021
Duration 1 h 23 m
Genres
Awards
Docville
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
