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Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: A committed performance from Christopher Plummer can't save Man in the Chair's troubled and cliched script.
Theatrical Release:Dec 7, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: MAN IN THE CHAIR stars Christopher Plummer (A BEAUTIFUL MIND, THE SOUND OF MUSIC) as weathered curmudgeon Flash Madden. The former film gaffer is embittered about Hollywood's current regime that... [More]
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Wagner
Director: Michael Schroeder
Though they can't transcend writer-director Michael Schroeder's pointed contrivances, the actors tap into something achingly true in this valentine to Hollywood's below-the-line crafts people and society's castoffs.
[An] elegant documentary.
This genuinely moving picture, with its edgy hand-cranked camerawork, represents a remarkable reinvention for a former B-movie maven whose most notable achievement before this was directing an 18-year-old Angelina Jolie in Cyborg 2.
A fair-to-middling contemporary fantasy drama that, despite its surfeit of flashy effects, is mildly charming in the way it addresses the injustice of old folk having to live out their final years in decrepit homes.
The old and the young really do have something to say to each other as pictures like this one (along with 'The Water Horse') tell us with so enjoyably.
Ambitious, heartfelt but, Plummer's excellent performance aside, dramatically lightweight and unconvincing.
Surprisingly moving proof that you can take a man out of the movies, but you can't take the movies out of the man.
Watchable drama with a strong performance from Christopher Plummer, though the script often feels simplistic and can't quite manage the emotional punch the story deserves.
Man In The Chair feels a bit like a high school movie project, which is appropriate since that's exactly what it's about.
A ramshackle but likeable story
At a time when most films wallow in mankind’s basest instincts, Man in the Chair is a rare, once-in-a-blue-moon kind of movie that celebrates the best qualities in people and makes you applaud the human race.
Top CriticTouching if by-the-numbers.
Top CriticA movie about movies and the people who love them.
It's hard to imagine anyone other than Christopher Plummer taking on the role of Flash Madden.
Once its machinery is humming, it settles into a soothing fable of a last hurrah.
Top CriticBy salvaging a troubled script with deep, committed, touching portrayals, Plummer and Walsh help prove Schroeder's points about how Hollywood isn't just the province of the rich, young and pretty.
As in Cocoon(1985), the emphasis is on sentiment, feel-good and reclaiming the elderly from the scrapheap. But the performances are nowhere near as subtle.
Schroeder's heart is in the right place, but his cinematic taste is unfortunately elsewhere.
For its first 45 minutes or so, and intermittently thereafter, Michael Schroeder's Man in the Chair feels, annoyingly, like a film school project.
A modest budgeted comedy-drama about learning life lessons that is sentimentally written and directed by Michael Schroeder.
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