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- 2017
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 29 m
- 2017
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Thomas Webb (Callum Turner), the son of a publisher and his artistic wife, has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents’ Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongs...
Directed By: Marc Webb
Written By: Allan Loeb
- 2017
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 29 m
- 2017
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 29 m
The Only Living Boy in New York
33
4.8
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Summary Thomas Webb (Callum Turner), the son of a publisher and his artistic wife, has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents’ Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongs...
Directed By: Marc Webb
Written By: Allan Loeb
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
30% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
57% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
33
13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
30% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
57% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
Webb delivers a film that’s somewhat derivative, but succeeds as a welcome alternative to superhero extravaganzas.
The cast is impressive, and again, Bridges is always a welcome presence.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 User Ratings
4.8
27% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
36% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
36% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 User Ratings
4.8
27% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
36% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
36% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Callum Turner plays a somewhat aimless young New Yorker, who's struggling with a platonic relationship when he discovers his father's having an affair. He befriends a new neighbor (a quietly wonderful Jeff Bridges), who offers him advice and solace. This is from director Marc Webb, who (in addition to 2 Spiderman flix) directed "500 Days of Summer," which has the same type of appealing interactions and charming characaters. In addition to Turner's charismatic performance (he's also quite beautiful), there are touching moments from Pierce Brosnan, Cynthia Nixon and Kate Beckinsale. It's a bit slow starting, but thanks to the fine cast, it develops into a sweet little story of frustrated romance and relationships.
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As the film spirals outward from its central relationship to delve into other characters’ hidden pasts, the story becomes too unwieldy and fragmented for the audience to develop a comprehensive understanding of Callum Turner's Thomas or his personal evolution.
There are some fleeting moments of inspiration — the music by Rob Simonsen is a master class in sudsy melodrama, and Nixon turns in a great performance — but The Only Living Boy in New York is rotten to its Big Apple core.
Song reference or not, the title alone should be a major red flag, but there’s no way to fully prepare yourself for the navel-gazing narcissism to come during the film itself.
Marc Webb’s new movie, in contrast, uses the song for its title, the name of an in-movie manuscript, and as a late-breaking song cue that doesn’t drop the needle so much as clunk it down with turgid inevitability.
"Only Living Boy" fails to convince as a character study, romance or love letter to the CBGB-era New York City. It drops a plot bombshell close to the end of its 88-minute running time, but the filmmakers haven’t laid the track to make it plausible.
This extremely uneven but entertaining pic features nice work by Jeff Bridges as a hard-drinking spiritual guide (a part that perhaps only he could pull off with a semblance of credibility) and surprisingly subtle work by Pierce Brosnan as the film reaches it climax. Cynthia Nixon and Kate Beckinsale are engaging and hit the right notes in underwritten parts. Callum Turner as the confused twentysomething lead who falls in love with his father’s mistress is effective in a role that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Turner nails the indecisive, conflicted, privileged only child struggling to find his own path and makes you believe that there is innocence beneath the jaded, world-weary mask of a New York City adolescent but he is undercut by a twist late in the movie that shifts the story to the grown-ups. It’s really not his movie. It’s a coming of age story for middle-aged baby boomers who made the wrong choices a generation ago. If the film had started out with that premise, it would have been a much more original and interesting story.
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Directed by Marc Webb, who was behind 500 Days of Summer and the Amazing Spider-Man movies but on the flip-side written by Allan Loab whose written hits like Just Go With It and The Space Between Us, "Boy In New York" as I'll just call it is a decently made film by Marc Webb but eventually undoes itself due to Loab's inability to tell a story. Another trend I've noticed lately with Loab is his "twists" he likes to throw in his movies. While filmmakers M Night Schamalan at least try to put some effort into their twists, Loeb doesn't. They seem to be kind of thrown in there for reasons I can't seem to comprehend, the same could be said with "Collateral Beauty," another film I felt could have been great had Loeb stayed away from it. The cast on the otherhand is fantastic, I really enjoyed Kate Beckinsale in this. While her character lacks depth, she shows a sense of vulnerability and that sense of insecurity that resonates from her character. Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosman and the young Callum Turner also do fantastic in their roles. The movie, like Collateral Beauty fails in its execution and writing, you really struggle to think about anything that made the movie really special. The film had near zero eroticism, especially considering it featured an attractive older women who is in multiple affairs. Basically, the film tried to be something but it fails to establish itself on any fronts and doesn't commit to what it's trying to do.
Overall Score: C (Kudos to Kate Beckinsale though)
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Why did I even watch this? The cast is the answer I guess. The story is so mediocre I'm actually surprised this movie was made. Don't waste your time with this and see other movies instead.
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Production Company
Amazon Studios,
Bona Fide Productions,
Big Indie Pictures
Release Date Aug 11, 2017
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating R
Genres
Awards
Muse Creative Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
