The Architect (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 5, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis & Isabella Rossellini | |
Performer: | Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan, Paul James, Malcolm Goodwin, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Walton Goggins, Duane McLaughlin, Constance Wu, David Call & Tijuana Ricks | |
Directed by | Matt Tauber | |
Edited by | Tom McArdle | |
Screenwriting by | Matt Tauber | |
Composition by | Marcelo Zarvos | |
Director of Photography: | John Bailey |
Entertainment Reviews:
[The film] explores class and cultural gulfs. Anthony LaPaglia gives a world-weary depth to the architect...
Box Office
Rating: 2/4 --
Despite his obvious earnestness, first-time director and cowriter Matt Tauber is ill equipped to mine emotions this complex.
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Detroit Free Press
Rating: 2/4 --
A well-intentioned misfire...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 2/4 --
Despite graphic scenes of drug- and crime-infested buildings where people are forced to live behind bars like prisoners, The Architect still feels stagebound, inert when it needs to be cinematic.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: C --
In my opinion, the film tries to cover too much ground. The plot strands don't exactly coalesce into a tight story. Perhaps that was [the director's] intent, but for me something was missing. The cast does yeoman work but I somehow couldn't exactly get ca
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Murphy's Movie Reviews
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Given the fact that The Architect is obviously a work in the tradition of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, not to mention Henrik Ibsen, it's disappointing.
Chicago Tribune
Rating: 2/5 --
When Tauber finds his focus, The Architect is worth watching. But Tauber rarely finds his focus.
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DVDTalk.com
Product Description:
Based on a play by David Greig, THE ARCHITECT stirs together issues of class, race, sexuality, and architecture, then heats up to create potent sociological drama. Anthony LaPaglia stars as Leo, a close-minded Chicago architect/college professor whose family is coming apart at the seams: older son Martin (Sebastian Stan) is troubled by his emerging homosexuality, Leo's 15-year old daughter (Hayden Panettiere) has begun acting out sexually in a misguided search for affection, and his high-strung wife (Isabella Rossellini) is headed towards a complete nervous breakdown. If that wasn't enough, African American activist Tonya (Viola Lee Davis) visits his classroom in an attempt to get him to sign a petition to have a housing project he designed torn down. He won't do it, claiming the building is soundly constructed, but Tonya's lived there long enough to know it's crushing the souls of its residents; her son even committed suicide to get away from it. In his refusal to accept responsibility or respond to the pain of others--both within and without his own four walls--Leo's carefully constructed world seems doomed to topple over. First time writer/director Matt Tauber provides lots of cross-cutting between the squalor of life in the projects vs. the cushy but sterile suburban residences in Chicago's other neighborhoods. Performance are excellent all around, elevating the characters beyond mere types: the scenes with Davis and LaPaglia are particularly electric.
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- Sales Rank: 96,803
- UPC: 876964000697
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