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  • 2010
  • TV-PG
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2010
  • TV-PG
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 56 m

Summary Cruz Montoya rushes home to his dying father, a reclusive former school teacher still leading a traditional life in their once bucolic mountain valley, now ravaged by poverty, drug abuse, and violence. After years away, Cruz quickly begins to retreat into his troubled former life, managing a Santa Fe hip-hop club owned by a local crime b...

Directed By: Victor Nunez

Written By: William T. Conway, Joe Ray Sandoval

  • 2010
  • TV-PG
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2010
  • TV-PG
  • Variance Films
  • 1 h 56 m

Spoken Word

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Cruz Montoya rushes home to his dying father, a reclusive former school teacher still leading a traditional life in their once bucolic mountain valley, now ravaged by poverty, drug abuse, and violence. After years away, Cruz quickly begins to retreat into his troubled former life, managing a Santa Fe hip-hop club owned by a local crime b...

Directed By: Victor Nunez

Written By: William T. Conway, Joe Ray Sandoval

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
56
46% Positive
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54% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
56
46% Positive
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54% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Strongly acted and beautifully photographed (by Virgil Mirano), Spoken Word is a quietly resonant family drama about the tug of old habits and the difficulties of escaping the past.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
80
Spoken Word benefits from an improbably perfect storm of production circumstances: The muscular, balanced script, the brainchild of an unusual alliance between professional poet Joe Ray Sandoval and TV writer William T. Conway, consistently plays to Nunez's strengths.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
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The movie is about how he learns to show what's in his heart even when he can't find the spoken words to express his feelings aloud. Under the careful guidance of Mr. Nunez, Mr. Becker does both, in ways that reminded me of a Hispanic James Dean.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
50
Spoken Word, which centers on the tense reunion between a recovering addict poet and his dying father, features more cliches than it can comfortably handle and is not helped by its grindingly slow pacing.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
42
Apart from its title, there's very little poetic about Spoken Word.
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40
With the patiently assembled '90s films "Ruby in Paradise" and "Ulee's Gold," director Victor Nuñez gave independent film a quiet luster of hand-craftsmanship sorely lacking in his dreary new effort, Spoken Word.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
40
While in many respects Spoken Word is adequately specific, it's still not very deep.
By John P. McCarthy FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Luminaria Films, Luminaria Productions, New Mexico Media Partners
Release Date Jul 23, 2010
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating TV-PG
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Tagline Some of life's greatest journeys begin at the end
Website http://www.spokenwordmovie.com/
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Awards

Imagen Foundation Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations

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