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  • 2011
  • PG-13
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2011
  • PG-13
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary What do you do when the best and the worst moment of your life happens at the exact same time? Henry is not a particularly nice guy. He is a drug dealer because he is good at it. Nathalie is a beautiful young woman, married and about to have her first child. One night, Henry makes a wrong turn and their lives tragically collide. As Natal...

Directed By: Deborah Chow

Written By: Joseane Brunelle, Tristan Tondino, Deborah Chow

  • 2011
  • PG-13
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2011
  • PG-13
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 32 m

The High Cost of Living

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
49
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary What do you do when the best and the worst moment of your life happens at the exact same time? Henry is not a particularly nice guy. He is a drug dealer because he is good at it. Nathalie is a beautiful young woman, married and about to have her first child. One night, Henry makes a wrong turn and their lives tragically collide. As Natal...

Directed By: Deborah Chow

Written By: Joseane Brunelle, Tristan Tondino, Deborah Chow

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
49
33% Positive
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50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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17% Negative
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80
May 13, 2011
Set in a noirish, gleaming Montreal, this handsome, captivating, well-paced and stylish film is fully realized in every aspect.
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70
May 14, 2011
The cast is uniformly good, but Isabelle Blais especially stands out as Natalie.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 6, 2011
Shared tragedy can bind together the most unlikely of people. Movies often make too much of that truism, but surprisingly committed performances from actors like these can still make it feel like something meaningful.
By Eric Hynes FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 8, 2011
This debut feature by the Canadian director Deborah Chow is so artistically well-intentioned and earnest in its ambitions that you can almost forgive the banality of its every scene.
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40
May 9, 2011
Although there are moments when lead thesps Zach Braff ("Scrubs", "Garden State") and Isabelle Blais just about pull off the implausible conceit, the picture still suffers from major problems of tone as well as stilted camerawork and editing.
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30
Sep 6, 2011
Deborah Chow's ridiculously implausible yet still predictable tale of guilt and redemption is so bipolar in tone that when it's not a more linear rip-off of Guillermo Arriaga's grim and gritty melodramas (21 Grams, Babel), it's the kind of quirky indie romance that made Braff's name.
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Production Company Suki Films
Release Date Sep 9, 2011
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating PG-13
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Website http://www.tribecafilm.com/tribecafilm/The_High_Cost_of_Living.html
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Awards

Toronto International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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