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- 2012
- R
- Rainbow Releasing
- 1 h 52 m
- 2012
- R
- Rainbow Releasing
- 1 h 52 m
Summary When a heart-broken actress and her "civilian" sister return to their theatrical family's crumbling home for very different reasons, secrets are exposed,rivalries are rekindled and love as rare as a blue bullfrog begins to bloom. (Rainbow Releasing)
Directed By: Henry Jaglom
Written By: Henry Jaglom
- 2012
- R
- Rainbow Releasing
- 1 h 52 m
- 2012
- R
- Rainbow Releasing
- 1 h 52 m
Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
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Summary When a heart-broken actress and her "civilian" sister return to their theatrical family's crumbling home for very different reasons, secrets are exposed,rivalries are rekindled and love as rare as a blue bullfrog begins to bloom. (Rainbow Releasing)
Directed By: Henry Jaglom
Written By: Henry Jaglom
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
31
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
75% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
In the end, there is something to be said for letting actors loose on a roller-coaster ride, but from time to time, someone needs to be operating the brakes.
Partly reverent, mostly sendup, Just 45 Minutes From Broadway depicts theater folk as those lovably quirky people who can't stop performing in life, for better or worse. This film might be perfect for a preteen acting camp, or anyone whose eyes have that glowing, cultlike spark of the stage-obsessed.
Eventually, the self-regarding acting clan admits they're only human after all. By then, the audience may want to disown them.
In an overlong sequence shot to resemble an actual play, the acting feels so forced, the staging so wooden, that it's impossible to be fully engaged in what's actually going on. The actual story is, if not quite rote, certainly nothing new.
An investment in theatrical self-indulgence with diminishing returns.
Though Jaglom intends for us to be charmed by show folk, the amateurish performances and perennially misjudged direction wind up portraying them instead as boundlessly needy narcissists.
Henry Jaglom applies what must by now qualify as a tradition of pointless agitation to the disruption of theater. Unsurprisingly, the results are disastrous.
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Production Company
The Rainbow Film Company
Release Date Oct 12, 2012
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating R
Awards
Wild Rose Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
