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  • 2020
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  • 2020
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  • 1 h 23 m
Driveways

Summary Kathy (Hong Chau), a single mother, travels with her shy eight-year-old son Cody (Lucas Jaye) to Kathy's late sister's house which they plan to clean and sell. As Kathy realizes how little she knew about her sister, Cody develops an unlikely friendship with Del (Brian Dennehy), the Korean War vet and widower who lives next door. Over the...

Directed By: Andrew Ahn

Written By: Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen

  • 2020
  • FilmRise
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2020
  • FilmRise
  • 1 h 23 m

Driveways

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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83
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 31 User Ratings
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Summary Kathy (Hong Chau), a single mother, travels with her shy eight-year-old son Cody (Lucas Jaye) to Kathy's late sister's house which they plan to clean and sell. As Kathy realizes how little she knew about her sister, Cody develops an unlikely friendship with Del (Brian Dennehy), the Korean War vet and widower who lives next door. Over the...

Directed By: Andrew Ahn

Written By: Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen

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100
May 7, 2020
It’s dumb to measure the worth of anything by its ability to make you cry, but by the end of Driveways the feelings of the characters spill over into your own experience of watching a small, very quiet, very powerful 83-minute short story of a movie.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
90
May 8, 2020
It builds a deeply moving emotional journey out of the simplest, most mundane elements. By the end, almost nothing has happened, and yet you’re a wreck.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW

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88
May 6, 2020
If you want to celebrate the life of legendary actor Brian Dennehy, who died last month at age 81, start with one of his final films: Driveways. His performance as a widowed veteran is right up there with his finest screen work, which makes his passing all the sadder.
By Johnny Oleksinski FULL REVIEW
80
May 14, 2020
The director’s sophomore feature brims with so many tender mercies, so many quietly observed moments, that even its light touch leaves a mark.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
75
May 8, 2020
A gentle, almost willfully recessive story about love and loss and all the ways that people find to share the burden of them both, one unhurried day at a time.
By Leah Greenblatt FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 8, 2019
That uncommon and all-too-welcome gift — like some kind of fragile wildflower, emerging tentatively through cracks in the concrete: a film about kindness.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
67
Feb 14, 2019
Without a singular galvanizing conflict to focus the plot, Driveways feels more like a collection of character studies than a cohesive whole.
By Jude Dry FULL REVIEW
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Production Company CinemaWerks, Allusionist Pictures, Electric Panda Entertainment, Farcaster Films, Maven Pictures, Studio Mao, Symbolic Exchange
Release Date May 7, 2020
Duration 1 h 23 m
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Website https://filmrise.com/film/driveways
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Awards

International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 4 Nominations
Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Awards
• 3 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations

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