Winter Passing (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 25, 2019
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Mvd Marquee Collect
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell & Amelia Warner | |
Performer: | Amy Madigan, John Bedford Lloyd, Deirdre O'Connell, Dallas Roberts, Anthony Rapp, Rachel Dratch, Sam Bottoms, Ed Harris & Amelia Warner | |
Directed by | Adam Rapp | |
Edited by | Meg Reticker | |
Screenwriting by | Adam Rapp | |
Composition by | John Kimbrough | |
Produced by | Laura Bickford | |
Director of Photography: | Terry Stacey |
Entertainment Reviews:
Winter Passing is one dull, extended encounter session among hackneyed characters.
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Washington Post
Although tediously slow at points, Winter Passing has a purveyingly powerful familial dynamic from start to finish.
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Behind The Lens
Rating: 2/4 --
Unfortunately, this too-dour film can't decide whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama. As a result, it doesn't really work as either.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Rating: 3/4 --
This flawed drama about a self-destructive young actress and her reclusive novelist father has its rewards, mainly in some good performances.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A strangely moving experience.
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DVDTalk.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
There are intriguing actors and ideas here, but only occasionally do they combine with convincing force.
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Boston Globe
Rating: C+ --
It's a disturbing movie, particularly the first half, and one not easily digested.
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Dallas Morning News
Product Description:
Adam Rapp makes his impressive feature film directorial debut with WINTER PASSING, an intimate, often bleak, but ultimately hopeful film about the importance of family, however dysfunctional. Zooey Deschanel carries the movie as Reese Holdin, a sullen, depressed, self-mutilating actress struggling to stay afloat in New York. When an aggressive editor (Amy Madigan) offers her a fat check in exchange for the love letters written by her famous writer parents, she returns to her father's Michigan farm in search of a payday, but instead finds herself trying to connect with her estranged father (Ed Harris), as well as the odd surrogate family he's assembled for himself.
Rapp's script is sharp and his direction is solid, but his greatest achievement may be the performances he coaxes from his talented cast. Ed Harris is powerful and moving as Don Holdin (whose last name makes the Salinger reference explicit), an erstwhile American icon who's become alcoholic, reclusive, and borderline insane since the recent suicide of his wife. Will Ferrell shows off unexpected range with an effective, understated comic turn as Corbit, an odd former Christian rocker turned bodyguard and handyman, and Amelia Warner is engaging as Shelly, a pretty young former student who watches over Don and might or might not be his lover. But it's Deschanel who propels the movie, making her character at times profoundly unlikable--as in a jarring early scene in which she drowns her terminally ill kitten in the East River--but nevertheless riveting and redeemable. While there's never much doubt that Reese will manage to rediscover herself with the help of her father and his companions, the characters are unique and well-drawn, and watching her do so is a pleasure.
Rapp's script is sharp and his direction is solid, but his greatest achievement may be the performances he coaxes from his talented cast. Ed Harris is powerful and moving as Don Holdin (whose last name makes the Salinger reference explicit), an erstwhile American icon who's become alcoholic, reclusive, and borderline insane since the recent suicide of his wife. Will Ferrell shows off unexpected range with an effective, understated comic turn as Corbit, an odd former Christian rocker turned bodyguard and handyman, and Amelia Warner is engaging as Shelly, a pretty young former student who watches over Don and might or might not be his lover. But it's Deschanel who propels the movie, making her character at times profoundly unlikable--as in a jarring early scene in which she drowns her terminally ill kitten in the East River--but nevertheless riveting and redeemable. While there's never much doubt that Reese will manage to rediscover herself with the help of her father and his companions, the characters are unique and well-drawn, and watching her do so is a pleasure.
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