About Alex

Name: About Alex
Genre: Drama
Released: August 8, 2014
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 45

2014

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: August 8, 2014 | R

Summary: After one of them suffers an emotional breakdown, a group of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away. Despite the group’s best efforts to keep it light and enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences leads to an explosion that, coupled with the flammable combination ofAfter one of them suffers an emotional breakdown, a group of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away. Despite the group’s best efforts to keep it light and enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences leads to an explosion that, coupled with the flammable combination of drugs, wine, and risotto, cannot be contained.… Expand

Director: Jesse Zwick

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Rex Reed

Aug 7, 2014

The intelligence and unhackneyed humor of the believable, unself-conscious screenplay by fledgling director Mr. Zwick (son of veteran director Edward Zwick) deserves special praise. It never hits a false note. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Aug 6, 2014

As About Alex moves toward its conclusion, it devolves into some plot resolutions that were a lot less predictable back in the ’80s. Read full review

Abby Garnett

Aug 5, 2014

A lightweight Big Chill reworked for today's young professional set, which proves too clumsy and self-conscious to live up to its weighty subject matter. Read full review

Justin Chang

Aug 8, 2014

Neither the script’s up-to-the-minute signifiers nor its cheekily self-aware humor can entirely dispel a formulaic feel. Read full review

IndieWire Diana Drumm

Aug 26, 2014

Focusing on cultural references and social cues, About Alex fails to give us a big picture compelling enough to overlook its flaws. Read full review

Robert Abele

Aug 7, 2014

The movie stalls in a limbo of half-realized characters and superficial weightiness. Read full review

David Lee Dallas

Aug 4, 2014

However self-aware the film may be, its characters and moods and conflicts are too over-determined and familiar to linger in the memory very long after the credits roll. Read full review

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