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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary Nancy, Please tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There's just one snag: as Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that somethin...

Directed By: Andrew Semans

Written By: Will Heinrich, Andrew Semans

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 23 m

Nancy, Please

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary Nancy, Please tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in academia. There's just one snag: as Paul is unpacking his belongings, he discovers that somethin...

Directed By: Andrew Semans

Written By: Will Heinrich, Andrew Semans

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91
May 23, 2013
Nancy, Please begins as a deadpan slacker comedy with existentialist undertones, and Will Rogers' Paul is a ball of unsettled twentysomething nerves. It's a subtle shift in Semans' first feature, both in tempo and in Rogers' performance, that we don't realize the film taking on a slightly more diabolical undertone.
By Gabe Toro FULL REVIEW
90
May 23, 2013
It’s a brutally unsympathetic portrait of situational anxiety that withholds comfort from Paul and viewer alike, and Mr. Semans refuses to relent.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
80
May 23, 2013
This subtly engrossing psychological thriller plays like an intellectual version of Fatal Attraction, minus the sex and the dead bunny. And that’s meant as a compliment.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
67
May 23, 2013
Paul's increasingly hectic attempts to retrieve the book dominate the movie so heavily that it leaves little room for considering how this effort fits into the rest of his world.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
60
May 23, 2013
For Semans’ conceit of an obsessively narrow world to really work, he needed to have established an initially more expansive milieu.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Small Coup Films
Release Date May 24, 2013
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Nancy has something of Paul's, and he will tear himself apart trying to get it back
Website http://www.facebook.com/nancyplease
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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