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  • 2001
  • R
  • Ardustry Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2001
  • R
  • Ardustry Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary On a recent Halloween night four couples of differing backgrounds bring eight very different sets of hopes and aspirations to the dinner table of a Weehawken, New Jersey neighborhood party. When a fortune teller is invited to the house for entertainment, everything is thrown into disarray with the prediction that "one couple will be fin...

Directed By: Linda Yellen

Written By: Michael Leeds, Gisela Bernice, Linda Yellen

  • 2001
  • R
  • Ardustry Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2001
  • R
  • Ardustry Home Entertainment
  • 1 h 46 m

The Simian Line

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
46
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary On a recent Halloween night four couples of differing backgrounds bring eight very different sets of hopes and aspirations to the dinner table of a Weehawken, New Jersey neighborhood party. When a fortune teller is invited to the house for entertainment, everything is thrown into disarray with the prediction that "one couple will be fin...

Directed By: Linda Yellen

Written By: Michael Leeds, Gisela Bernice, Linda Yellen

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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20% Positive
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70% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
46
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70% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
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Though picture is at times undermined by a lack of unifying perspective, its glimmers of greatness are a testament to the talent involved.
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60
The interactions between the realms of the magical and the everyday are carried off with an easygoing charm.
By F. X. Feeney FULL REVIEW
50
The film tries hard to avoid cliché but doesn't get very far.
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50
Given how much Yellen does right, it's all the more shameful that she so spectacularly sinks her film in the foot with one hugely questionable "creative" decision: adding a pair of ghosts into the mix.
By Michael Dequina FULL REVIEW
50
The acting runs the gamut, with Daly and Redgrave at the top and a few characters looking as if they wandered onto the wrong movie set.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW
40
Since we know most of this cast is capable of acting, one must assume they received little instruction. Even if they did, who could blame them for not listening? After all, they are dealing with a script that tries to play scenes featuring drunken ghosts with silly accents for tragedy.
By Luke Y. Thompson FULL REVIEW
30
Might be described as a muddy, cliché-ridden sudsfest that lurches uncertainly between comedy and soap opera without finding its emotional or visual footing.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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8% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
7.8
75% Positive
9 Ratings
8% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Production Company DaWa Movies, Libra Pictures, S.L. Productions
Release Date Nov 16, 2001
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A "spirited" look at relationships
Website http://www.thesimianline.com/
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