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Luminous Motion
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Based on 14 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Scott Bradfield
Robert Roth
Directed by: Bette Gordon
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 19, 2000
DVD: October 9, 2001
Running Time: 94 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Eric Lloyd, Deborah Unger, Terry Kinney, and Jamey Sheridan
A mother and her 10-year old son, who has an active fantasy life, drive across the country on the proceeds of the mother's trick-turning; that is, until her car dies. She temporarily moves in with a hardware store owner, and the boy's father tries to track them down.
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What The Critics Said
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
What counts here is the acute psychological validity with which Gordon evokes a coming of age that's seen with a darkly outrageous sense of humor--and no small amount of compassionate detachment.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Holly Willis
The elegant gambol through ideas, combined with Gordon's clear love of luminous motion -- literally -- is a welcome treat.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Fine acting and creative directing lend three-dimensional life to this absorbing story, which blends dreamlike elements with sharply etched drama and touches of pure cinematic ingenuity.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Gordon is so visually and stylistically inventive and the actors are so skillful that you aren't likely to lose interest.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The one thing about Luminous Motion that can be said with certainty is that Bette Gordon should be making more movies.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Never regains its raw power once the sultry Unger retreats from the front seat of her Chevy to the privacy of her suburban bedroom.
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
An ambitious film that sticks with you long after you have left the theater -- because of both what it achieves and what it does not.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Amy Taubin
If Lloyd's performance is the film's near-fatal flaw, Unger's is its saving grace.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
It's a bit like "The Sixth Sense," but without the melodramatic comfort of the supernatural.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Staff (Not credited)
Although Lloyd's performance (reminiscent in mannerism to Haley Joel Osment), sometimes drags, it's the only real defect in a surprisingly effective film that doesn't stoop to offer easy answers.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Has its moments, but overall it's depressing.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Its tone is stilted and mannered -- and most of it seems a bit loony.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Gordon makes the mistake of preserving Bradfield's highly idiosyncratic dialogue -- dazzling on the page, deadly in any actor's mouths -- and the otherwise talented Lloyd is miscast.
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