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  • 2010
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  • Entertainment One
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Entertainment One
  • 2 h 1 m

Summary Jolene is a red-haired wanderer who isn't content to call one place home for any expended stretch of time. Setting off to explore the outside world at age fifteen, the free-spirited teen embarks on a decade-long cross-country of adventure which finds her crossing the paths of everyone from a firebrand Texan who steals her heart and destr...

Directed By: Dan Ireland

Written By: Dennis Yares, E.L. Doctorow, Michael Gilio

  • 2010
  • R
  • Entertainment One
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Entertainment One
  • 2 h 1 m
Jolene
Metascore Generally unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
31
User Score Generally favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary Jolene is a red-haired wanderer who isn't content to call one place home for any expended stretch of time. Setting off to explore the outside world at age fifteen, the free-spirited teen embarks on a decade-long cross-country of adventure which finds her crossing the paths of everyone from a firebrand Texan who steals her heart and destr...

Directed By: Dan Ireland

Written By: Dennis Yares, E.L. Doctorow, Michael Gilio

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Metascore
Generally unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
31
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Generally unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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75
Oct 27, 2010
You go away exhilarated. The movie has been through as many hurdles getting here as dear, sweet Jolene, but sometimes the most engaging movies are the ones worth waiting for.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 26, 2010
Chastain, an incandescent redhead with a heart-shaped face and round, shining eyes, does more justice to the part than it deserves.
By Michelle Orange FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 29, 2010
The tone veers wildly, from wacky indie to melodramatic soap opera. Like the other men in her life, Ireland adores Jolene without entirely understanding her.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 28, 2010
Jolene's skin may smell like warm milk to Brad, but to the rest of us it has curdled long before she leaves his bed.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 26, 2010
Throughout, Chastain delivers a full-bodied debut performance, but she's ultimately stuck taking her wandering-soul protagonist far more seriously than it-or the film-deserves.
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20
Oct 26, 2010
There's no pleasure in watching the repeated sexual exploitation of the eponymous heroine in Dan Ireland's adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's short story; that there's little purpose to this abuse, however, is absolutely unforgivable.
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Oct 29, 2010
So bad it's almost (but not quite) good, Dan Ireland's Jolene is an unusually elaborate and excruciatingly long vanity production based on a short story by E.L. Doctorow ("Ragtime").
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Next Turn Productions
Release Date Oct 29, 2010
Duration 2 h 1 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A life between the exit signs
Website http://www.jolenemovie.com/
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Awards

Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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