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- 2001
- R
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 38 m
- 2001
- R
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 38 m
Summary Based on David Mamet's comic play, this is a depiction of the lives of sailors on the shipping freighters of the Great Lakes seen through the perspective of a young sailor working his way through college.
Directed By: Joe Mantegna
Written By: David Mamet
- 2001
- R
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 38 m
- 2001
- R
- Cowboy Booking International
- 1 h 38 m
Lakeboat
59
User Score
Generally Favorable
7.0
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Summary Based on David Mamet's comic play, this is a depiction of the lives of sailors on the shipping freighters of the Great Lakes seen through the perspective of a young sailor working his way through college.
Directed By: Joe Mantegna
Written By: David Mamet
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Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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61% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
59
61% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The most pure of Mamet's works to come to the screen.
It works for the most part, though some scenes come off contrived or directed without flavor. But thanks to the likable, rough-hewn crew and Forster, the film flows along gruffly and with eloquence.
Beautiful moments of performance such as Forster's subtly spellbinding monologues -- make for compelling cinema.
Though Mantegna can't quite lick the essential staginess of Mamet's adaptation of his play, even with lots of scenic shots of Lake Ontario, the performances are what one would expect with such a consummate actor in charge.
Brought to the screen awkwardly but ardently by Mamet-actor supreme Joe Mantegna in his feature-directing debut.
Lakeboat requires its audiences to embrace it as lovingly as Mamet and Mantegna embrace its men, but it's a lot to ask.
So fractured and so awkwardly staged that end result is an uninvolving film that’s dramatically inert and artistically shapeless.
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