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  • 2016
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Two poets (Katie Homes and Luke Kirby) with bipolar disorder meet in a treatment facility, and their chemistry is instant and intense, driving each other's mania to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose bet...

Directed By: Paul Dalio

Written By: Paul Dalio

  • 2016
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2016
  • R
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 46 m

Touched With Fire

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
62
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary Two poets (Katie Homes and Luke Kirby) with bipolar disorder meet in a treatment facility, and their chemistry is instant and intense, driving each other's mania to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose bet...

Directed By: Paul Dalio

Written By: Paul Dalio

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
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41% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
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41% Mixed
7 Reviews
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90
Feb 11, 2016
Touched With Fire is an actor’s field day, and both Mr. Kirby and Ms. Holmes boldly meet the challenge of playing bright, high-strung artists struggling with depression.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 11, 2016
Writer-director Dalio has firsthand experience with bipolar disorder, and his perspective sheds fresh light on the unique ways in which manic-depressive individuals experience love and creativity.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW

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33% Positive
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42% Mixed
5 Ratings
25% Negative
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70
Feb 9, 2016
With high spirits and great tenderness, Dalio and his actors stir up what might be the greatest of youthful feelings: that as you get to know someone new, someone whose thinking rhymes with yours, you're also becoming ever more yourself.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 18, 2016
Touched With Fire is by no means a perfect film. The production values and melodrama sometimes seem better suited for a small-screen movie. But the drama deserves points for its measured, realistic view of mental illness.
By Stephanie Merry FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 9, 2016
The film embraces ambiguity in the end, with a coda that places Marco and Carla on the same level but not in the same place. The scene's unsettled but peaceful mood seems an honest reflection of its characters' lives.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 11, 2016
Unlike its protagonists, Touched with Fire never reaches either impressive highs or awful lows. It’s a film that is capably made in most respects, particularly in its acting and visuals, but it’s not truly successful.
By Kimber Myers FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 8, 2016
The film is a thinly dramatized series of arguments against, then ultimately in favor of the medication of bipolar disorder.
By Elise Nakhnikian FULL REVIEW
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Production Company 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Release Date Feb 12, 2016
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.touchedwithfire.com/
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Awards

Woodstock Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SAMHSA Voice Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
IndieFEST Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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