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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Dada Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Dada Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary After a tumultuous affair between international photojournalist Lee (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and troubled writer John (Martin Henderson) ends in John’s disappearance, Lee lands in a mental hospital. While recuperating, Lee reconnects with her estranged daughter, Jessie (Alia Shawkat) and befriends Peter, a patient who bears an uncanny rese...

Directed By: Jane Weinstock

Written By: Gloria Norris, Jane Weinstock

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Dada Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Dada Films
  • 1 h 30 m

The Moment

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
22
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Summary After a tumultuous affair between international photojournalist Lee (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and troubled writer John (Martin Henderson) ends in John’s disappearance, Lee lands in a mental hospital. While recuperating, Lee reconnects with her estranged daughter, Jessie (Alia Shawkat) and befriends Peter, a patient who bears an uncanny rese...

Directed By: Jane Weinstock

Written By: Gloria Norris, Jane Weinstock

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
22
13% Positive
1 Review
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
63% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
22
13% Positive
1 Review
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
63% Negative
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70
Jun 3, 2014
What's fresh is Weinstock's interweaving of flashbacks, slightly altered versions of flashbacks, and flashbacks within flashbacks, so that viewers must work as hard as Lee to determine past from present.
By Sam Weisberg FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 5, 2014
The film continually resists coherence or synthesis, with puzzles left unresolved amid multiplying possibilities and highly repetitive flashbacks, yielding a mystery that wearies rather than intrigues.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 5, 2014
Disorientation is a double-edged sword, especially when the ostensible reorientation is as unsatisfying as it is here.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
25
Jun 4, 2014
The Moment is another in a long string of thrill-free psychological “thrillers” that fail from start to finish.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
20
Jun 5, 2014
The story itself is fairly straightforward, but lands with a thud.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
0
Jun 3, 2014
The Moment is a stilted, asinine Hitchcockian exercise that ultimately serves as little more—and often considerably less—than a needless reminder of how difficult it is to execute this kind of material.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
0
Jun 2, 2014
The film is a hybrid of a Lifetime movie focused on a "strong woman," a run-of-the-mill murder mystery, and a yogurt commercial from hell.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Momentous Development
Release Date Jun 6, 2014
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Seeing is believing.
Website https://www.facebook.com/TheMomentMovie2013
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Awards

Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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