SummaryDuring the summer after his college graduation, Art Bechstein tries to break free from his stern father and his web of gangland connections when he meets Jane Bellweather , at tortured beauty, and her boyfriend, Cleveland Arning, a small-time street hood with seductive delusions of grandeur. The cast is rounded out by Art’s boss and part-time gir... Read More
Directed By:Rawson Marshall Thurber
Written By:Rawson Marshall Thurber, Michael Chabon
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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Generally Unfavorable
38
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Mixed or Average
5.4
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
13% Positive
2 Reviews
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47% Mixed
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6 Reviews
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80
In the film's most flamboyant role, Peter Sarsgaard's devil-ish charisma and cold bluster is frightening.
60
Disappointed fans of Michael Chabon will have to watch "Wonder Boys" for solace, for The Mysteries of Pittsburgh boasts only one core mystery: how one can take such promising material and render it completely unmemorable?
50
Earnest but unconvincing film.
42
Only Sarsgaard shows a pulse, creating a self-destructive, omnisexual rogue who, for all his faults, would probably be great company. The same can't be said for the film around him.
38
You know a movie's got problems when the most memo rable thing about it is Sienna Miller's mustache.
30
A clumsy and confused adaptation of Michael Chabon's 1988 novel.
20
Mena Suvari, as Art's vindictive ex-fuckbuddy, gives sole signs of life--Miller is so void of presence that one can forget she's in the movie from scene to scene.
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Mixed or Average
43% Positive
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Dec 23, 2010
6
For the purpose of condensing the novel, I can understand why some of the choices are made. However, removing Arthur and consolidating him with Cleveland was questionable. Having read the book, it made me fairly uncomfortable, but somehow the ending came to practically the same conclusion minus perhaps a bit of emotion.
Production Company:
- Groundswell Productions
- Sherazade Film Development
- Visitor Pictures
- QED International
Release Date:Apr 10, 2009
Duration:1 h 35 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Sometimes life leads you to the most mysterious places.
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
