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Wake
  • Release Date: May 28, 2004
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34 out of 100

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  • Summary: The fateful reunion of four brothers quickly dissolves into a night of drinking, deceit, perversions, and death. They don?t realize until it is too late that the party they are having is, in fact, a wake. (Wildwell Films)

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  1. Positive: 0 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 6 out of 11
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    Writer-director Henry LeRoy Finch's ripely overwrought exercise in Southern Gothic psychodrama, which happens to unfold in a picturesquely decaying house in Maine.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ben Kenigsberg
    30
    Fraught with sophomoric lost-innocence metaphors and schematic oedipal tensions.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    30
    A dysfunctional drama.

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