Mask

Name: Mask
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: March 22, 1985
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Cher, Dennis Burkley, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Harry Carey Jr.

1985

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Mask

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 22, 1985

Starring: Cher, Dennis Burkley, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Harry Carey Jr., Laura Dern, Lawrence Monoson, Micole Mercurio, Richard Dysart, Sam Elliott

Summary: A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 120 min

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Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

Mask is a wonderful movie, a story of high spirits and hope and courage. Read full review

Chicago Tribune - Gene Siskel

It's an old lesson, but one well told with fresh faces in Mask. Read full review

Los Angeles Times - Sheila Benson

Stoltz is simply amazing in the variety, the humor and the absolute lack of self-pity with which he draws Rocky, whose spirit soars so far beyond his body. Read full review

Miami Herald - Bill Cosford

It is shameless, and I have the feeling that it is not always wholly honest with us or with its subjects. But it is so well made that we are compelled to forgive its sins. Only a cynic could deny its appeal. [22 Mar 1985, p.D10]

Washington Post - Staff (Not Credited)

Mask is a tear-jerker in the sense that your dentist is a tooth jerker -- it yanks on your heart with pliers. That said, the story it has to tell is so unutterably sad and inspiring that the movie works in spite of itself. [22 Mar 1985, p.C1]

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Jay Scott

The time Bogdanovich spends with Rusty and Rocky, and the time Rocky spends at a summer camp for the blind with a gorgeous blonde (Laura Dern) who falls in love with him, is time that is priceless. The time Bogdanovich spends with the cuddly bikers, especially the time he spends with Sam Elliott in a dismally ingratiating, cockeyed performance as Rusty's boy friend, is time that exacts a terrible toll: credibility. [08 Mar 1985]

Newsweek - David Ansen

The heart of the movie is in the Rocky-Rusty relationship, and as long as Bogdanovich sticks with Cher and Stoltz, his film is genuinely moving and largely free of cant. Far more problematic is the portrait of the biker gang who, for all their rowdiness, are about as threatening as Santa's elves. [04 Mar 1985, p.74]

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