The Event

Name: The Event
Genre: Drama
Released: October 3, 2003
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Don McKellar, Olympia Dukakis, Parker Posey

2003

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THINKFilm | Release Date: October 3, 2003 | R

Starring: Don McKellar, Olympia Dukakis, Parker Posey

Summary: Set in Manhattan's fashionable Chelsea district, amidst the neighborhood's large and varied gay population, The Event is an intricately structured inquiry into one man's death that becomes a celebration of his life. (ThinkFilm)

Director: Thom Fitzgerald

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 110 min

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Eric Campos

A very important film that is as sad as it is uplifting. After viewing it you may just have a whole new appreciation for life. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Writer-director Thom Fitzgerald -- his previous feature was "The Hanging Garden" -- has managed to make a comedy about assisted suicide that hardly feels black at all. Read full review

Scott Brown

Aggressively drab and granular, the movie feels like a late-'80s AIDS passion play given an ill-fitting post-Sept. 11 makeover. Read full review

Allison Benedikt

Just sit, feel a little blue and watch Parker Posey wander through New York in an ugly conservative suit. In "Blade," at least she'll get a snazzier wardrobe. Read full review

Megan Lehmann

A good edit would have allowed the film's worthy, obviously heartfelt, message to shine. Read full review

Janice Page

Dukakis gets off some of the film's best lines and keeps the worst from sinking the whole affair; Polley's role is limited, but her character's audition for a feminine hygiene commercial is by far the best thing here. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Shot on crummy DV and told via flashbacks, the film largely plays out like a Reagan-era "Citizen Kane." Common sense wrecks even the film's funniest bit, and the director's nausea-inducing camera observes the hysteria in perpetual pan-and-scan. Read full review

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