Katie Says Goodbye

Name: Katie Says Goodbye
Genre: Drama
Released: June 7, 2019
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Alex Breaux, Chris Lowell, Christopher Abbott, James Belushi, Keir Gilchrist

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: June 7, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Alex Breaux, Chris Lowell, Christopher Abbott, James Belushi, Keir Gilchrist, Mary Steenburgen, Mireille Enos, Morning Star Wilson, Natasha Bassett, Nate Corddry, Olivia Cooke

Summary: In her late teens, Katie (Olivia Cooke) is the sole breadwinner in the trailer she shares with her mother (Mireille Enos). Katie waits tables at her small town's lone diner, and she supplements her wages by selling sex to a few locals and a kindly trucker named Bear (Jim Belushi) who regularly passes through. Her goals are greater than justIn her late teens, Katie (Olivia Cooke) is the sole breadwinner in the trailer she shares with her mother (Mireille Enos). Katie waits tables at her small town's lone diner, and she supplements her wages by selling sex to a few locals and a kindly trucker named Bear (Jim Belushi) who regularly passes through. Her goals are greater than just getting by day to day; she's saving up to get out of New Mexico and start a new life in San Francisco. … Expand

Director: Wayne Roberts

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Sheri Linden

May 12, 2017

Katie Says Goodbye is a plaintive story of hard luck and fringe dwellers, one that might have felt clichéd in lesser hands. But first-time filmmaker Wayne Roberts conjures new, resonant chords in his taut, tender drama. Read full review

Allan Hunter

May 12, 2017

A luminous, heartbreaking performance from Olivia Cooke shines through every frame of Katie Says Goodbye. Read full review

The Film Stage Jordan Raup

May 12, 2017

Everything Roberts wants to convey is obtrusively front and center, leaving little room for the viewer to have any interpretation for themselves. Read full review

Geoff Berkshire

May 12, 2017

Even if first-time writer-director Wayne Roberts is sympathetic to the plight he’s chosen for the protagonist, his film never burrows deep enough under her skin to make the string of miserable scenarios connect in a meaningful way. Read full review

Kimber Myers

Jun 6, 2019

A film that deserves scrutiny for its treatment of its young female protagonist. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

May 12, 2017

Which version of the film each viewer sees will be a subjective choice, of course, but the fact that the lead character is so utterly guileless and innocent and kindhearted...makes Katie less a victim of the world and more a victim of first time writer-director Wayne Roberts. Read full review

Rex Reed

Jun 6, 2019

A miserable hunk of depressing junk. Read full review

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Lcproberts

Feb 23, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. For some girls, this endless way of life, filled with pain and betrayal by all those she loves and all means of support failing despite her scrambling via demeaning ways to find solutions is a reality. If someone viewing this film has enough privilege, they will oversee this fact.

The movie did an excellent job of illustrating how meaningless and neverending it can feel to endure such a life with the flat presentation in which it unfolds. A girl with low self esteem, using a mask of child-like happiness to get past the heavy demands on her very existence very well could choose to hang onto hope and fantasize unrealistically that life can be much better. That it isn't as bad as it really is. Denial can be a strange foe and friend. She doesn't say goodbye the way she had hoped. But she is happy she finally gets to say goodbye.

An excellent film.… Expand

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Deanomite

Dec 31, 2019

There is always something haunting about Rachel Cook, she always accepts a bad situation naturally, whether Ready Player One or Thoroughbreds or this. I think she really represents the plight of the millennials, very little opportunity but not really aware that things were ever another way.There is always something haunting about Rachel Cook, she always accepts a bad situation naturally, whether Ready Player One or Thoroughbreds or this. I think she really represents the plight of the millennials, very little opportunity but not really aware that things were ever another way. I didn't especially care for those movies, they were ok, but that makes her place in them all the more fitting. I think Me Earl and the Dying Girl is my favorite with her, it was helped by amazing wonderful photography by Chung Hoon Chung, he does a lot of simple tricks and primary colors. A really good performance is one in which you can see yourself in the character irrespective of who they are or the circumstances. This girl loves so naturally, she does not know the mechanistic ways that people treat each other. She does not understand that people enslave each other by nature, and you feel sad for the loss of her innocence and the death of the person she naturally is. She is codependent, caring only for the happiness of others, and that means she will be destined to suffer until she learns to be selfish, losing the best part of herself. This is by far the best role Rachel Cook has done. I think it's interesting that she had no problems until she tried to be an individual and want something for herself. I think the world destroys who ever does not want to be a tool.… Expand

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davidisles

Jun 10, 2019

This film lives and dies with Olivia Cooke's performance and I'm glad to say it lives because Cooke gives one of the best performances I have ever seen on screen. The raw emotion from scene to scene as her hope fades really makes you feel for her character. It was to the point where I wasThis film lives and dies with Olivia Cooke's performance and I'm glad to say it lives because Cooke gives one of the best performances I have ever seen on screen. The raw emotion from scene to scene as her hope fades really makes you feel for her character. It was to the point where I was genuinely mad at the other characters in this film that wronged her. This movie isn't perfect, but it's worth it just for Olivia.… Expand

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