Metacritic Film

Weekend, The

Starring David Conrad, Gary Dourdan, James Duval, Jared Harris, Gena Rowlands, and Brooke Shields

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Strand Releasing
Drama
97 minutes | Color
UK / USA
Released In Theaters November 3, 2000

Chronicles one midsummer weekend in a country house in upstage New York when three friends gather on the anniversary of the death of a man who was related to them all by either blood or love. (Strand Releasing)

WRITTEN BY
Peter Cameron (novel)
Brian Skeet

DIRECTED BY
Brian Skeet

Overall Metascore

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

31 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 New York Daily News
Intelligent and holds your attention, like a mystery story unraveling.
60 Mr. Showbiz
It's a coffee-table movie, but what saves it are a couple of performances.Rowlands puts a spin on every line reading, Harris quietly mines regret, and Shields, assured and sexy, has never been this good.
60 Chicago Reader
Rowlands and Unger deliver sensitive performances, Shields is surprisingly good.
50 TV Guide
Thank God for Brooke Shields: Spitting spite with every remark she hurls at her long-suffering mother, she's a revelation.
50 New York Post
You rarely see movies as dramatically uneven as The Weekend, which has a dreadful, one-star first half - followed by an interesting, three-star conclusion.
40 Variety Ken Eisner
Despite some memorable high points, pic plays like "Love! Valour! Compassion!" -- without the laughs.
20 The New York Times
You have to admire the effort its attractive cast expends pumping life into stilted, flowery dialogue that confuses pretentious attitudinizing with profound insight.
10 LA Weekly
Shrill and gloomy.
10 Village Voice
Bloodless, lip-biting psycho-carnage.

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