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  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • Samuel Goldwyn Company
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • Samuel Goldwyn Company
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary Jane (Marcia Gay Harden), a bookish introvert, loses her job as a librarian and spirals downward into depression. The library and all of its books gave her life a meaning. Jane contemplates suicide and decides to see something beautiful before she dies, traveling to tropical, picturesque Costa Rica. Once there she meets a younger man nam...

Written By: Joel Silverman

  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • Samuel Goldwyn Company
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • Samuel Goldwyn Company
  • 1 h 31 m

After Words

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Jane (Marcia Gay Harden), a bookish introvert, loses her job as a librarian and spirals downward into depression. The library and all of its books gave her life a meaning. Jane contemplates suicide and decides to see something beautiful before she dies, traveling to tropical, picturesque Costa Rica. Once there she meets a younger man nam...

Written By: Joel Silverman

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Aug 19, 2015
Predictable but never coy about it, After Words speaks to the fateful connection that sometimes occurs between two people under the most improbable circumstances.
By Steve Davis FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 20, 2015
After Words is part adventure, part love story, part travelogue, and all as synthetic as rayon.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 20, 2015
Pat and silly, the movie offers a wheezy moral that a buttoned-up American just needs a sensitive Latino and some ethnic cuisine to end the blues.
By Randy Cordova FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 19, 2015
Director Juan Feldman trusts his actors to charm us, which they do — up to a point. But there’s only so much that can be wrung out of this spinster-meets-exotic stud, “Summertime”-lite affair.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
30
Aug 20, 2015
The good news about After Words is that it offers Marcia Gay Harden a rare film lead. The bad news: Harden's role in this groan-worthy dramedy is so dreary and ill-conceived that even her formidable talents can't bring it to life.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
30
Aug 20, 2015
Ms. Harden is fine in a role that requires little, but her character is a lazy stereotype that ought to make real librarians wince.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
30
Aug 18, 2015
Feldman, having established all his stereotypes, refuses to push them beyond the motions you know they have to go through from the first scene of lonely Jane crying into her cat's fur.
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Production Company Mano a Mano Films, Classic Films, Movie Trailer House
Release Date Aug 21, 2015
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating TV-14
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Tagline Everyone deserves a love story
Website http://www.manoamanofilms.com/
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