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Constellation
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The Visit

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language and a sexual reference

Starring Billy Dee Williams, Gabrielle Union, Melissa De Sousa, Hill Harper, Zoe Saldana, Ever Carradine, Rae Dawn Chong, and Lesley Ann Warren

This story chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep south as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. (Freestyle Releasing)

GENRE(S):	Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Jordan Walker-Pearlman
DIRECTED BY:	Jordan Walker-Pearlman
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: May 22, 2007 Theatrical: February 2, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	96 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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Variety Robert Koehler

Exceptionally strong cast is pictures beating heart.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The central story, in which Helms has to make up his mind whether to attend his sister's funeral, is too limited a conflict to hang a movie on. Ultimately, audiences will have to satisfy themselves with the collective presence of these actors and the movie's obviously good-hearted intentions.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman can't adequately handle either of his tasks: The script is as sappy as the direction is awkward. Fortunately, he was smart enough to enlist a cast of pros who can ably sidestep the project's many potholes.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

There are effective scenes and powerful performances scattered among long sequences in which various members of the family gaze into space as they contemplate the burden of the past, walk aimlessly through Atlanta or have odd encounters with strangers.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

Only Williams makes any real emotional connection: I'm not sure I'd call his performance good, but there's something fascinating about seeing the man once heralded as "the black Clark Gable" three decades removed from heartthrob status, heavy and sullen-looking, weighed down by the burdens of time and age.

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

Deeply odd films are often deeply personal ones, and Constellation, a dazed, inchoate drama about a mixed-race Alabama family, tells a story that's clearly close to the heart of writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman.

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

Heavy-handedness prevails, with the schmaltzy original score as unconvincing as the script. An over-reliance on song, from pop to Puccini to Ellington to hip-hop, doesn't compensate for what's lacking in the storytelling.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Walker-Pearlman's strengths lie in these characterizations and his ability to draw subtle performances from his actors. However, the powerfully understated moments are undercut by the film's unwieldy structure. Any emotional momentum that builds is lost with the interminable flashbacks.

The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz

If earnestness equaled skill, Constellation would be a classic.

New York Post Kyle Smith

Williams appears to be having trouble keeping his eyes open, and the audience will, too.

The average user rating for this movie is 3.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Joy C. gave it a3:
This movie is absolutely terrible. its not cohesive, boring, slow. too much is left unexplained. the movie also made me very angry and i think it sends a bad message to women. one girls boyfriend cheats with her best friend and she "forgives" him by getting back with him? What type of BS is that? also all the subtle but "powerful" moments ALWAYS missed the mark with the exception of the part where Union looks as her boyfriend when he has to make a crucial decision as to whether or not he should abandon her. otherwise the movie is a TERRIBLE waste of time.

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