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  • 2022
  • R
  • Quiver Distribution
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2022
  • R
  • Quiver Distribution
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary After spending time in prison following an assault charge, Connor Bates (Ray Nicholson) now works in a library and spends his free time running, swimming, and trying to piece his world back together. When he meets Marilyn Chambers (Diane Kruger), the wife of a wealthy businessman, they collide into an intense physical and emotional relat...

Directed By: Neil LaBute

Written By: Neil LaBute

  • 2022
  • R
  • Quiver Distribution
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2022
  • R
  • Quiver Distribution
  • 1 h 44 m

Out of the Blue

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary After spending time in prison following an assault charge, Connor Bates (Ray Nicholson) now works in a library and spends his free time running, swimming, and trying to piece his world back together. When he meets Marilyn Chambers (Diane Kruger), the wife of a wealthy businessman, they collide into an intense physical and emotional relat...

Directed By: Neil LaBute

Written By: Neil LaBute

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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80
Aug 23, 2022
There is something undeniably romantic about film noir that that makes Neil LaBute’s Out Of The Blue one of his most alluring cinematic concoctions to date.
By Martin Carr FULL REVIEW
58
Aug 25, 2022
The film’s simply a bit off-kilter—written with influences blatantly on its sleeves yet uninterested in subverting any assumptions that fact guarantees. I must be missing something.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 25, 2022
Like most of LaBute’s work, Out of the Blue is talky, sparsely staged and presented with his signature detachment. The two leads are fine.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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Aug 26, 2022
Its dialogue is constructed in a way that would sound unnatural even in a daytime soap opera, and Kruger works her best to save it, but there’s only so much she can do. The story is so poorly developed it feels like an outline of a script, all in favor of a final plot twist that would be jaw-dropping…in the 1930s.
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Aug 24, 2022
The general idea here is a sound one, taking the conventions of a celebrated genre and sending them up. But LaBute’s incessant grasping for laughs out of “The Next Tuesday” and “Sometime After That” titles is instantly cloying.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
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Aug 26, 2022
There’s no question writer-director Neil LaBute’s effort doesn’t catch fire.
By Geoff Berkshire FULL REVIEW
25
Aug 24, 2022
Maybe if you hate movies, LaBute’s attempt to bore us to death with classic noir material is a nifty prank. For anyone else, you’re better off revisiting Garfield and Turner, or Stanwyck and MacMurray, or Hurt and Turner — or even “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.”
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

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Production Company The Squid Farm, BondIt Media Capital
Release Date Aug 26, 2022
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
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