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  • 2009
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  • Capitol Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2009
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  • Capitol Films
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful London and the majestic Welsh countryside. (Capitol Films)

Directed By: John Maybury

Written By: Sharman Macdonald, Rebekah Gilbertson

  • 2009
  • R
  • Capitol Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Capitol Films
  • 1 h 50 m

The Edge of Love

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful London and the majestic Welsh countryside. (Capitol Films)

Directed By: John Maybury

Written By: Sharman Macdonald, Rebekah Gilbertson

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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60
The film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star.
By Ray Bennett FULL REVIEW
50
Holds a lot of promise in its first hour and never completely falls apart, but it's ultimately not the movie it might have been.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
50
The Edge Of Love is more like a museum piece, placing historical figures in frozen positions, and asking us to judge them as the curators do.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
42
The best thing The Edge of Love could do for you is to send you back to Thomas's poetry. Dash this folderol.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
40
The Edge of Love may be intended as a biopic of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, but it’s destined to be remembered as the movie that brought Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller into the same bathtub.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
38
A "great poet" movie, the poet in this case being Dylan Thomas, and it's utter bollocks.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
30
Director John Maybury showed a defter hand with the artist biopic in his 1998 Francis Bacon film, "Love Is the Devil." Here he repeatedly falls into the genre’s traps, creating an inert, claustrophobic movie.
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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54% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Production Company BBC Film, Capitol Films, Hindsight Media, Rainy Day Films, Sarah Radclyffe Productions Limited, Wales Creative IP Fund
Release Date Mar 13, 2009
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The only thing more dangerous than war... is love.
Website http://capitolfilms.com/Film/Edge_Of_Love_The
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Awards

BAFTA Awards, Wales
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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