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  • 2014
  • R
  • Monterey Media
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • Monterey Media
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly opposes it until she encounters a chance at love, giving her hope that anything, even resurrection, is possible. A discordan...

Directed By: M. Blash

Written By: M. Blash

  • 2014
  • R
  • Monterey Media
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • Monterey Media
  • 1 h 36 m

The Wait

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly opposes it until she encounters a chance at love, giving her hope that anything, even resurrection, is possible. A discordan...

Directed By: M. Blash

Written By: M. Blash

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Jan 28, 2014
The pained, textured performances of Sevigny and Malone enrich their scenes, but when it ranges away from its leads, The Wait can seem like an anthology of moments rather than a narrative whole, although those moments do accumulate into a mood of chilly, gently surreal isolation.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 9, 2014
The payoff isn’t nearly as interesting as the cryptic set-up and disquieting performances and scenes that precede it in The Wait.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 30, 2014
Writer-director M. Blash's sophomore film is ethereal and trippy, told less in scenes than in oblique snatches, not unlike the experience of emotional paralysis. This approach grows wearying.
By Annlee Ellingson FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 30, 2014
The dialogue is so vague, and the plot so minimal, it all feels like a rather pointless exercise.
By Sara Stewart FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 26, 2014
By the end, audiences will most likely feel as if they've been locked out of the drama that's presumably unfolding right in front of them.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
20
Jan 28, 2014
Probably best to dissuade the so-bad-it’s-good crowd: There’s nothing here to laugh at with the communal glee of a "Rocky Horror" or "The Room"; only a spectacularly bad composite shot of a fire-fighting plane induces any real giggles.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
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Jan 29, 2014
Ms. Sevigny is not called “the queen of the weirdo Bs” for nothing. (In fairness, she was a weekly television addiction as one of the polygamous Mormon wives on the hit TV series Big Love.) But not since she performed real-time fellatio on scruffy Vincent Gallo in the forgettable 2003 bomb "The Brown Bunny" has she stooped this low.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Essentia, Olympus Pictures, Sammy Films
Release Date Jan 31, 2014
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
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Website http://montereymedia.com/thewait/
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Awards

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 1 Nomination

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