SummaryA mother and her 10-year old son, who has an active fantasy life, drive across the country on the proceeds of the mother's trick-turning; that is, until her car dies. She temporarily moves in with a hardware store owner, and the boy's father tries to track them down.
Directed By:Bette Gordon
Written By:Scott Bradfield, Robert Roth
Luminous Motion
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Metascore
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57% Positive
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80
The elegant gambol through ideas, combined with Gordon's clear love of luminous motion -- literally -- is a welcome treat.
75
Fine acting and creative directing lend three-dimensional life to this absorbing story, which blends dreamlike elements with sharply etched drama and touches of pure cinematic ingenuity.
70
Gordon is so visually and stylistically inventive and the actors are so skillful that you aren't likely to lose interest.
63
Never regains its raw power once the sultry Unger retreats from the front seat of her Chevy to the privacy of her suburban bedroom.
60
If Lloyd's performance is the film's near-fatal flaw, Unger's is its saving grace.
50
Its tone is stilted and mannered -- and most of it seems a bit loony.
40
Gordon makes the mistake of preserving Bradfield's highly idiosyncratic dialogue -- dazzling on the page, deadly in any actor's mouths -- and the otherwise talented Lloyd is miscast.
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Production Company:
- Fiona Films
- Good Machine
Release Date:May 19, 2000
Duration:1 h 31 m
Tagline:an amoral tale
Awards
Locarno Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

































