Heights

There's much subtle beauty in the last movie completed by Merchant Ivory Productions before Merchant's untimely death.

The film is one of those interlocking dramas where all of the characters are involved in each other's lives, if only they knew it. We know, and one of our pleasures is waiting for the pennies to drop.

Director Chris Terrio confidently delivers a solid first feature, but sometimes doesn’t always engage in the characters’ inner demons, which could have made an even better film given the cast and material.

This is brisk and fun to watch, thanks to the actors...But once you catch the main drift of the plot, it becomes awfully ho-hum.

In this study of keeping up appearances while everything falls apart, the stakes never seem as high as the title suggests.

Themes at the heart of Heights of despair among the beautiful people are a bore.

If there's anything good to be said about Heights, it's Glenn Close's strutty, booming performance.