The Mysteries of Pittsburgh R
Sometimes life leads you to the most mysterious places.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 4, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Phase 4 Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Mena Suvari & Nick Nolte | |
Directed by | Rawson Marshall Thurber | |
Edited by | Barbara Tulliver | |
Screenwriting by | Rawson Marshall Thurber | |
Composition by | Theodore Shapiro | |
Produced by | Michael London & Jason Mercer | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Barrett | |
Executive Production by | Peter Chiarelli & Bruna Papandrea |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh seems to be missing an essential element of drama, of risk, underneath its glossy, golden sheen.
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Washington Post
Rating: 2/5 --
When characters say things like "It's gonna be a great summer," or call someone "Old sport" and act oh-so-beautifully doomed, it's time to call the cliché police.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 1.5/5 --
boring and aimless
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7M Pictures
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh would play as weak sauce in any context, but it's especially disappointing coming to theaters on the heels of the similarly themed but superiorly made Adventureland.
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The Rumpus
Rating: 2/4 --
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh fails on its own terms - not just in comparison with its source material.
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Washington Times
Rating: D+ --
A mess of a movie, looking to contort Chabon's novel into a darkly personal story of choice and desire. Instead the film sloppily lumbers around in search of a consistent dramatic path. It's handsome enough, just wildly misguided from frame one.
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DVDTalk.com
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The real mystery about The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is how writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber could turn Michael Chabon's delightful debut novel into such a bore.
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New York Post
Product Description:
Adapting a subtle, treasured novel is no enviable task. Yet it's that admittedly mammoth undertaking that is at the core of the success or failure of THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, director Rawson Marshall Thurber's film version of Michael Chabon's debut novel. As a book, MYSTERIES masterfully builds upon the rich tradition of coming-of-age novels through a combination of unique characters, a simple yet intriguing plot, and a quiet celebration of the hidden delights (the "mysteries," if you will) of a small city. Thurber, who also wrote the screenplay, takes huge liberties in reworking the source material--the story of Art Bechstein (Jon Foster), the son of a known gangster, and his conflicting love for two of his bohemian friends (one a woman, the other a man) in the summer following his college graduation--and in the process creates a film that is a mere shadow of the novel on which it was based. Working with a varied cast of novice and more experienced actors (Sienna Miller, Mena Suvan, Nick Nolte, Peter Sarsgaard), Thurber does his best to recreate the melancholic wonder of falling in love, grappling with the expectations of family, and adjusting to one's adult skin, yet Chabon's novel is perhaps too nuanced to lend itself to an easy big-screen transition. That's not to say that Thurber's effort is not gallant and in its own way charming; rather, film is film, literature is literature, and, more often than not, never the twain shall meet.