The Humbling R
Older but not wiser.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 17, 2015
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Millennium Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig & Dianne Wiest | |
| Performer: | Charles Grodin, Dan Hedaya, Dylan Baker, Nina Arianda, Billy Porter & Kyra Sedgwick | |
| Directed by | Barry Levinson | |
| Composition by | Marcelo Zarvos |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2.5/5 --
If you liked Birdman, you also might like seeing Al Pacino playing a delusional, indeed hallucinatory, actor trying to save his soul and his onstage career in the sort-of-comedy The Humbling. Or you might not.
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Toronto Sun
Rating: 3/4 --
This is Pacino's best film performance in years. In playing an actor who has lost the art of fooling himself, he reveals with mordant wit the terrors of diminished capacity. To watch him do it is a master class.
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Rolling Stone
In Mr. Pacino’s tempered wild-man performance -- one of his strongest in over a decade -- Simon rages at the dying of the light with a zany ferocity, largely avoiding self-pity...
New York Times
Rating: B --
For all the positive aspects of THE HUMBLING, some scenes bog down the narrative.
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Fresh Fiction
With the intimacy of a theatre piece, [Barry] Levinson and company play with the idea of art imitating life imitating art. Always bordering on the edge of fantasy and reality, insanity and sanity, the Humbling is contemplative and reflective.
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Behind The Lens
Rating: 3/5 --
Often absurd, biting, and offbeat in ways that are surprising and often refreshing.
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IONCINEMA.com
[T]here's a treasure trove of off-kilter humor, affecting pathos and first-class acting to be savored.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Director Barry Levinson reteams with actor Al Pacino in THE HUMBLING, a black comedy about an aging actor. Pacino plays Simon Axler, a successful actor who, as the film opens, tumbles from the stage while performing Shakespeare. He's suffering from mental issues, having trouble differentiating between reality and fantasy, and he's decided to retire from the stage. Into his house moves Pegeen (Greta Gerwig), the daughter of Simon's old acting friends. She's had a crush on him since she was young, and soon the two develop a strange, dysfunctional relationship that draws the ire of her parents. Meanwhile, Simon's agent Charles Grodin tries to get him to work again. THE HUMBLING screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
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