SummaryMaladies charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star (James Franco) in 1960’s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find clarity and new purpose as a writer, he holes up with his eccentric sister (Fallon Goodson) at the seaside home of their best friend (Catherine Keener). But as he disappears f... Read More
Maladies
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Mar 20, 2014
58
All of the actors, including Franco, do excellent work, given the limitations imposed upon them by a scenario that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Were he a struggling up-and-comer rather than a movie star, the perception of an ambitious misfire like this one would probably be quite different. It’s not a good movie, but it deserves better than mockery.
Jan 21, 2014
40
This is basically a studied and serious film, but there's a feyness to its tone, and a lethargy to its pacing that make it difficult to warm to, even if the principal actors give it their all.
Mar 19, 2014
33
It only ever connects in the small moments that fall through the cracks of the supposed formal and thematic experimentation—when the fine actors are allowed to walk and talk like real human beings, rather than a collection of tropes.
Mar 18, 2014
30
The social construction of illness is certainly a worthy topic, but Carter situates his characters far from any semblance of a plot and even further from his heart.
Jan 21, 2014
20
There’s scant emotional, aesthetic or intellectual gratification in this grainy, flat-looking portrait of the artist as a young nut job.
Mar 19, 2014
0
Overrated, overexposed and overindulgent, James Franco is all over the place, like cow chips in the abandoned pasture of a derelict farm.
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Aug 1, 2024
8
After watching the trailer of the movie, I thought that this movie is made to make people understand. I felt that it was the kind of movie that tells the story of ordinary life events, followed by thought-provoking things, and the end of the movie that left the audience with a good feeling. James Franco and Alan Cumming are great actors. I like to watch movies with these actors.
Oct 7, 2015
4
i gets a four simply because it was highly surreal i **** way that Franco went full **** along with everyone else... great **** fact its going on my **** beginning of the movie is actually funny for one second...i hope people realize that it is not that soon enough...essentially this is an eccentric **** whose story i wouldn't mind reading at the end from the gay guy because he was able to land that crossword word...Absent..right away for a **** i enjoyed the restaurant scene... a free spirit like him would die in jail ...almost like it was planned that gay
Production Company:
- Tribeca Films
- Rabbit Bandini Productions
- Stardust Pictures
- Dot Dot Dot Productions
- Most / Rice Films
- Most Films
- Movie Trailer House
Release Date:Mar 21, 2014
Duration:1 h 36 m
Rating:TV-14
Awards
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
