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Map of the World, A
First Look Pictures Releasing
MPAA RATING: R for some sexuality and language
Starring
Sigourney Weaver,
Julianne Moore,
David Strathairn,
Dara Perlmutter,
Arliss Howard,
Kayla Perlmutter,
Deborah Lobban,
and
Chloë Sevigny
A woman (Weaver) lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's (Moore) child, the town turns against her.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jane Hamilton (novel)
Peter Hedges
Polly Platt
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Scott Elliott
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 19, 2000
Video: September 26, 2000
Theatrical: December 3, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
125 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
Sigourney Weaver is so daring and amazing, her veracity is at times painful to behold.
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
An accomplished film that continually takes us beyond our first impressions of people and situations.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is not tidy. Like its heroine, it doesn't follow the rules.
83
Portland Oregonian
Diana Abu-Jaber
The two lead actresses are exquisite in their divergent ways.
80
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
It's provocative and very moving, filled with some of the strongest performances of the year.
78
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Worth navigating for its refusal to play to the crowd. There's certainly nothing safe or sweet about Weaver's performance.
78
Austin Chronicle
Russell Smith
One of the truest-seeming movies I've seen in some time and as one of the most odd and haunting.
75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
All of the characters in this story of love, guilt and redemption feel like real people, facing real dilemmas, and you truly care about what happens to them
75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Gives three first-rate actors a chance to stretch, and they do.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
What makes this film truly chilling is the fact first-time feature filmmaker Scott Elliott and his writers somehow make every step of this descent harrowingly believable.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Weaver is superb in a movie as scary and provocative as the timely subject it explores.
70
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore share their pain in a depressing World.
70
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
If director Scott Elliott falters, it's only in the spots where he tries to comment on her (Alice's) persecution without being complicit in it.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Director Scott Elliott, in his feature-film debut, is especially perceptive about what goes on at the edges during deepening family crises, literally at the borders of the screen.
65
TNT RoughCut
Don Kaye
Weaver herself inhabits her character with confidence and passion, although she's inconsistent in spots.
63
USA Today
Mike Clark
The movie Weaver has to carry has so many nagging imperfections that Academy Award attention looks like a long shot.
63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
If it's not one of the five best of 1999, it's a personal best for Weaver, and that's pretty good.
60
The New York Times
Staff
Something disturbing has happened to this story en route to the screen.
60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
This eerily dry drama bravely attempts to show, without resorting to the literal staging of contradictory scenarios, how much perceptions of the same situation can vary.
60
Film.com
Elizabeth Weitzman
There's not a single moment when you forget it's Weaver; she always seems to be inhabiting this poor character's soul for her own purposes.
60
Slate
David Edelstein
Occasionally dissonant, but it's remarkably cleareyed.
50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
All the right intentions but never overcomes the essential problem of showing what's going on inside people's heads.
50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Scott Elliott's palsied directorial debut, from a mine shaft-ridden script, is a sick joke, and Weaver's part in it screams of temporary insanity.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
For all the blathering, heavy-handed pathos, we might as well be watching the Lifetime cable channel.
38
Chicago Tribune
Barbara Shulgasser
Strangely unmoving. So what went wrong?
 The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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