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Passion of Mind
Paramount Classics
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for scenes of sexuality
Starring
Demi Moore,
Stellan Skarsgard,
and
William Fichtner
The story about a woman who must choose between love and illusion.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Ronald Bass
David Field
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Alain Berliner
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 19, 2000
Video: September 19, 2000
Theatrical: May 26, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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68
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Works best as romantic melodrama and is least convincing as a psychological suspenser.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
There's no Passion in this psychological drama.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
By the ending of the film, which is unconvincingly neat, I was distracted by too many questions to care about the answers.

50
USA Today
Andy Seiler
Pretty hard to buy into at all.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Though a hypnotically beautiful film, it's dramatically listless and dull, and completely lacking in passion.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Leaves the viewer exhausted, jet-lagged from the effort of investing equally in competing story lines.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A shallow, stilted romantic thriller.

50
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
It's pretty muddle-headed and confusing.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
At its most interesting, and a bit frightening, when Moore starts to get a little loony. Too bad they didn't follow through and make this more of a psychological thriller than a melodrama.

40
TV Guide
Stephen Miller
What may have looked good on paper across the Atlantic gets lost in the translation to our shores.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Moore succeeds, even though the film as a whole does not fare as well.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's too gauzy, and - with its Ron Bass script - too goopy by half.

38
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The acting is sincere and the camera work is pretty, but this art-movie variation on "The Sixth Sense" doesn't have enough energy to fulfill the high promise of Berliner's previous picture, the enchanting "Ma vie en rose."

33
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Nobody's got a clue. Enquiring minds don't even want to know.

30
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
Like a hall of mirrors, casting back at us distorted images from other movies. It even calls to mind "The Sixth Sense." It isn't engaging in the least.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Slick and effective escapism with a touch of poetry (a la "The Sixth Sense") that left me vaguely dissatisfied once the mystery was supposedly resolved.

25
Miami Herald
Sara Wildberger
Berliner deserves something better, as do all the actors -- even Moore, who's starting to look very interesting and European.

25
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Moore can't help but be rotten. She has no grace and little nuance, which is why she's always best as a hard-ass in movies.

25
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
So tedious that the experience results in nearly two hours of squirming and cringing.

20
Variety
Emanuel Levy
This small-scale, chamber piece, which boasts good acting from Moore, Skarsgard and Fichtner, has a strong built-in appeal for women but may experience harder times in going beyond the specialized arthouse circuits due to the narrowly-scoped, undernourished script.

20
Film.com
Elizabeth Weitzman
Are two Demis better than one? How you answer will determine the level of patience you'll need to sit through this bizarre pet project.

20
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
An indigestible chunk of romantic marshmallow.
20
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
An out-of-body experience for its viewers as well as its heroine.

20
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Less a spiritual quest than a very self-indulgent gimmick movie that could use a strong shot of inspiration.

20
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
It's hard to imagine a movie at once more pandering and insulting to adult women

20
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
You won't feel enlightened, just let down

20
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
It's hard to take Passion seriously because it brings to mind the kind of shallow psychology that wouldn't be out of place in a history short about Sigmund Freud on "ABC Schoolhouse Rock."


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