SummaryThis "thriller of the heart" is largely inspired by an extraordinary, unsettling true-life chain of events. (Miramax)
Directed By:Patrick Stettner
Written By:Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson, Patrick Stettner
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51
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5.8
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Metascore
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39% Positive
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This unconventional psychological drama weaves a fascinating tale, and Collette and Williams give two of the summer's best performances.
75
Williams delivers a solid, twinkle-free (though closed-off) performance, but the film as a whole can't decide what it wants to be.
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Jun 5, 2016
7
Why the low scores? I wasn't sure if this was a mystery, or a redemption movie, or a crime drama. That kept me guessing and made it more interesting. We find a man who is having personal drama in his life, when he is given a book to read by a friend. This starts him on a path, maybe a quest. This is based on an actual event in someone's life so sometimes it doesn't make sense, just like real life.
Aug 10, 2018
6
Good effort a very interesting cast but at the end, it is not that Thrilling or Mysterious, enjoyable, though.
63
The film is not so much suspenseful as intriguing.
50
What makes the film such a guilty pleasure is how Williams's righteous self-pity is perfectly matched to Collette's nuttiness and despair.
50
The movie's suggestiveness gives way to a certain thinness and lassitude.
50
Aiming for unsettling atmosphere over character definition, the dawdling mystery thriller manages to flatten two protagonists that had far more depth in the novel.
30
Depressed and depressing drama.
