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  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a funny and bittersweet look at love, sex, and modern romance. With an unsold script, no concrete plans, and a love life reduced to getting caught in compromising positions, a twenty-nine-year aspiring writer, Wilson just had the worst year of his life. That is until his best friend, Jacob, browbeats him i...

Directed By: Alex Holdridge

Written By: Alex Holdridge

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • IFC First Take
  • 1 h 30 m

In Search of a Midnight Kiss

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.0
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Summary In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a funny and bittersweet look at love, sex, and modern romance. With an unsold script, no concrete plans, and a love life reduced to getting caught in compromising positions, a twenty-nine-year aspiring writer, Wilson just had the worst year of his life. That is until his best friend, Jacob, browbeats him i...

Directed By: Alex Holdridge

Written By: Alex Holdridge

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
64
68% Positive
17 Reviews
28% Mixed
7 Reviews
4% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
64
68% Positive
17 Reviews
28% Mixed
7 Reviews
4% Negative
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88
We increasingly admire the quality of the acting: Both actors take their characters through a difficult series of changes, without ever seeming to try, or be aware of it.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
Lovingly photographed in a monochrome that recalls Woody Allen’s Manhattan, this is a slickly scripted rom-com.
By Patrick Peters FULL REVIEW
75
With a moody overlay of songs supplied by Okkervil River and Shearwater, In Search of a Midnight Kiss also serves as a millennial's answer to Woody Allen's "Manhattan."
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
70
Profane, hilarious and ultimately heartbreaking, Alex Holdridge's black-and-white feature In Search of a Midnight Kiss has a gutter purity that makes you root for it all the way and forgive its patches of ultra-indie awkwardness.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
67
Even when Midnight Kiss is sputtering, viewers can tune the dialogue out and just watch the scenery in one of the most "there"-y L.A. movies ever made.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
50
Painfully undermined by its central characters.
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38
It wanders and putters and follows its main characters around.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.0
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50% Mixed
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Production Company Midnight Kiss Productions (II)
Release Date Aug 1, 2008
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline It's not just another kiss
Website http://www.midnightkissmovie.com/
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Awards

Woodstock Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Florida Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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