Audubon Zoo - 6500 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Color
:
Color
Soundtrack
:
Through the Night Softly
Genre
:
Comedy / Drama
MPAA
:
Rated R for drug use, language and brief nudity.
Runtime
:
90 min
Awards
:
2 wins & 3 nominations
Overwiew :Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman) turns to gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law (Kathy Bates). Mobile Alabama / Gasoline Fire / Gasoline Sniffing / Mother In Law / Remote Control Airplane
Producers :
Jim Czarnecki, Daniel Guckau, Rainer Kolmel, Vincent Maraval, Alain de la Mata, Clark McCutchen, Ruth Charny, Chris Hanley, Jeff Roda, Fernando Sulichin, Rita Dagher, Yvette Cobarrubias, Timothy Wayne Peternel
Writers :
Gordy Hoffman
Critic Reviews
Grade
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Sean Axmaker : ...while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture, the journey doesn't really go anywhere. more...
B-
San Francisco Chronicle - Edward Guthmann : ...downbeat but oddly affectionate... more...
B
New York Times - A.O. Scott : ...feels, even in its relative brevity, about half an hour too long. more...
C+
New York Post - Lou Lumenick : ...an oddly endearing little chamber piece... more...
B
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas : ...fearless... more...
A-
filmcritic.com - Eric Vanstrom : Certainly worth a peek... more...
B
Film Threat - Anthony Miele : ...depressing, confusing and redundant. more...
C-
Film Journal International - Doris Toumarkine : Lame drama about grief and addiction disappoints on all fronts... more...
D
E! Online - If you miss Liza, you won't miss much. : http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/Reviews/0,1052,87792,00.html more...
Cincinnati Enquirer - Margaret A. McGurk : ...Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers a riveting lesson in the horrible fact that grief is madness. more...
B
Chicago Tribune - Michael Wilmington : ...a sad, strange little drama... more...
B-
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : ...not about a plot but about a condition. more...
B
Entertainment Weekly - Scott Brown : Writer-director Alison Murray picks at a hard, true hurt in this zombie melodrama of defloration, but nothing beyond that hurt really comes into focus. more...
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