Lullaby

Name: Lullaby
Genre: Drama
Released: June 13, 2014
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 35

2014

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ARC Entertainment (II) | Release Date: June 13, 2014 | R

Summary: Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Garret Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Richard Jenkins) fights a zero sum game to reclaim all that his illness stole from his family. A debate rages onEstranged from his family, Jonathan (Garret Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Richard Jenkins) fights a zero sum game to reclaim all that his illness stole from his family. A debate rages on patients’ rights and what it truly means to be free. Jonathan reconciles with his father, reconnects with his mother (Anne Archer), sister (Jessica Brown Findlay), and his love (Amy Adams) and reclaims his voice through two unlikely catalysts—a young, wise-beyond-her-years patient (Jessica Barden) and a no-nonsense nurse (Jennifer Hudson). Through this intensely life-affirming prism, an unexpected and powerful journey of love, laughter, and forgiveness unfolds.… Expand

Director: Andrew Levitas

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 117 min

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The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic

Jun 13, 2014

While the performances are the key to the success of Lullaby, it is Levitas’ heartfelt and personal story (his inspiration for writing it came from his own family experience) that provides the necessary tools for these actors to work with. Read full review

McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Moore

Jun 10, 2014

This terminal illness tale rises above the form, mainly thanks to a stellar cast and a refusal to drift into maudlin, a film that saves its big emotions for a wrenching finale that it earns. Read full review

Rex Reed

Jun 12, 2014

Despite the work of a first-rate cast, it doesn’t feel real to me. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jun 9, 2014

This feature debut deals mainly in clichés, never transforming the tough question at its center into compelling cinema. Read full review

Graham Fuller

Jun 12, 2014

Sadly, Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard are wasted in tiny parts, as is Amy Adams as the lost love of the sulky rocker. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jun 9, 2014

Much of the early action, with Jonathan telling off his father, feels awkwardly staged, even tortured, a quality exacerbated by Levitas’ weakness with dialogue. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jun 10, 2014

Rarely has the terminal seemed as interminable as it does in Lullaby. Read full review

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