Metacritic Film

Looking For An Echo

Starring Armand Assante, Diane Venora, Joe Grifasi, and Tom Mason

MPAA RATING: R for language

Regent Entertainment
Drama
97 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters November 10, 2000

Chronicles two old pals in middle age as they look back to when they were teenage musical stars. Vinnie (Assante), a well-to-do bartender is a widower with three children, the youngest suffering from lukemia. Vinnie proposes marriage to his daughter's nurse (Venora) and starts a new life.

WRITTEN BY
Jeffrey Goldenberg
Robert Held
Martin Davidson

DIRECTED BY
Martin Davidson

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

38 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
The film's locales have an appealing authentic feel to them, and everything from decor to music contributes to making Looking for an Echo an appealing heart-tugger.
63 New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The best performance comes from Venora.
50 New York Post Lou Lumenick
Well-meant but rambling little indie melodrama.
40 TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
A slow-moving, dramatically slack film.
40 LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Assante, restrained and thoughtful, reveals Vinnie's midlife bewilderment as much as his bred-in machismo. His performance is too delicate, though, to stand up to the rigidly formulaic schemes
30 Village Voice Alexander Clare
The stream of sentimentality is endless and often sickly, and the warm afterglow is decidedly manufactured.
20 The New York Times Stephen Holden
Corny, suds-drenched movie. The kindest way of looking at this roughly patched-together story is as the cinematic equivalent of the music it memorializes.

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