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- 2015
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- Cinelicious Pics
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Summary NYC brothers, loose cannon Mat (Josh Lucas) and put-upon Alan (Stephen Plunkett) stagger dimly towards some understanding of love, women, masculinity and what it truly means to be a brother.
Directed By: John Magary
Written By: Myna Joseph, Russell Harbaugh, John Magary
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Cinelicious Pics
- 1 h 51 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Cinelicious Pics
- 1 h 51 m
The Mend
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Summary NYC brothers, loose cannon Mat (Josh Lucas) and put-upon Alan (Stephen Plunkett) stagger dimly towards some understanding of love, women, masculinity and what it truly means to be a brother.
Directed By: John Magary
Written By: Myna Joseph, Russell Harbaugh, John Magary
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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8% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
76
83% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
One of the very best American independent films you’ll see this year, John Magary’s The Mend, takes what could have easily been a mundane tale of brotherly dysfunction and turns it into something abstract and electrifying.
Desplechin’s pictures can be as maddening as they are exhilarating, and the same is true of The Mend, which sometimes seems in danger of over dosing on its own stylistic flourishes. Nonetheless, it’s a hugely promising introduction to a director who’s just getting started.
By turns opaque, harsh, self-aware, indulgent and wickedly funny. It's never dull, pummeling you with its prickly smarts.
Directing his first feature after some shorts, John Magary digs into his characters with fresh eyes and a sly sense of adventure.
When Magary’s dialogue gets a bit too theatrical and self-conscious in the final act, you notice just because of how strong it’s been for the previous 80 minutes.
A convincing and refreshingly indirect examination of handed-down emotional flaws.
Ill-defined, overlong and wandering with unlikable leads (even Alan is too feeble and useless to sympathize with), The Mend would be a disaster if it weren't for the fact that the lack of vision is marginally absorbing in a kind train wreck, “will this movie ever reveal what the hell it’s about?”-like manner.
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Production Company
Moxie Pictures
Release Date Aug 21, 2015
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline A stressed out comedy
Awards
Indiewire Critics' Poll
• 3 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
