Vincent Wants to Sea
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  • Summary: Young Vincent Gellner is a determined man of many words, more often than not a man misunderstood. Suffering with Tourette syndrome his life is a constant wrestle with the idea of acceptance and his own uncontrollable and unique freedom of self-expression. When his mother passes away before she could gaze at the sea one last time he becomes haunted by life’s fleeting opportunities and is inspired to fulfill her final wish. With the help of his anorexic colleague Marie and their obsessive-compulsive pal Alex, Vincent escapes the confines of the clinic where he was sent by his father and steals a doctor’s car, buoyed by the opportunity to finally scatter his mother’s ashes to the sea. Pursued by his blustering father and uptight therapist, Vincent’s heartfelt race to freedom is an adventure fraught with both calamity and charm. (Umbrella Entertainment)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    Jul 14, 2011
    63
    This is a bright, broad, silly, harmless movie whose sweetness is a means to an end.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    Jun 24, 2011
    60
    The picture's quiet performances and occasionally surprising moments take it just far enough off the beaten path to make it more than a transparently formulaic feel-good story.
  3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    Aug 19, 2011
    50
    Despite the oddly literate title, Vincent Wants to Sea never deviates from the predictable bonding-through-misadventure script, and it has little to teach us about the nature and treatment of the traveler's respective maladies.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Paul Brunick
    Jun 27, 2011
    20
    The principal characters can be reduced to a handful of tics, and the entire story line is immaculately devoid of incidental detail. It's like sitting in a padded cell for about 90 minutes.

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  1. axelkoch
    4
    'Vincent Wants To Sea' has a respectful contact to mental illnesses but not more. It fails hard at mixing drama and comedy and has far too quick turns in the plot. It's a nice little production with well actors and some really good scenes (like the mountain peak) but it's just disappointing in the end.… Expand

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