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  • 1997
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 1997
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 36 m
Touch

Summary When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulkner.

Directed By: Paul Schrader

Written By: Elmore Leonard, Paul Schrader

  • 1997
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 1997
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 36 m

Touch

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulkner.

Directed By: Paul Schrader

Written By: Elmore Leonard, Paul Schrader

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
56
36% Positive
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57% Mixed
8 Reviews
7% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
56
36% Positive
5 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
7% Negative
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75
It may be a bit enigmatic and cerebral for some tastes, but if you don't mind your spirituality being served from a cracked chalice, you may find Touch is exactly what you've been seeking. [14 Feb 1997, p.G]
By John Petrakis FULL REVIEW
70
Touch is not one of those movies that hurtles toward a slam-bang climax. A bemused gloss on the varieties of religious experience, it knows enough to take its time, making sure we enjoy ourselves along the way.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
63
The plot of Touch sounds like a comedy. But the experience of seeing the film is subduing; the movie plays in a muted key.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
The playfulness and high spirits bubbling from the pages of Leonard's novels are squelched by Schrader's earnestness. Schrader's touch with Touch isn't light, and it costs him. [14 Feb 1997, p.D9]
By Jay Carr FULL REVIEW
50
It's a light-hearted comedy about faith, transcendence and American-brand exploitation, and addresses those issues in such goofy, indirect, unhurried fashion that you could easily miss what Schrader has to say.
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW
50
Ultimately, Schrader pulls us into a mind-over-matter kind of purgatory: Fun and original as his film is, it lacks feeling and heart.
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38
Simply put, Touch dies, with nary a resurrective hand in sight. [14 Feb 1997, p.C5]
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lumière International, Initial Productions
Release Date Feb 14, 1997
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A Wicked Comedy
Website http://www.mgmua.com/touch/
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Awards

Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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