By 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.
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12/21/07
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Man in the Chair (2007)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:7
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.7/10
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
Reviews for Man in the Chair
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Top CriticThe movie works so hard at juggling its clichés that it fails to generate interest in its story.
12/21/07
Top CriticThough 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.
12/14/07
Top Critic[An] elegant documentary.
12/14/07
Top CriticA ramshackle but likeable story
12/10/07
Top CriticOnce its machinery is humming, it settles into a soothing fable of a last hurrah.
12/07/07
Top CriticFor its first 45 minutes or so, and intermittently thereafter, Michael Schroeder's Man in the Chair feels, annoyingly, like a film school project.
12/07/07
Top CriticIt's a cute idea that a better filmmaker than writer-director Michael Schroeder could have done a lot with.
12/07/07
Top Critic[Director] Schroeder peppers scenes with snippets of classic films, and there's no doubting his deep love of cinema. But the honest truth is that no matter how generous your audience, it's never a good idea to remind us of other, better movies.
12/07/07
Top CriticWriter-director Michael Schroeder compulsively references canonical films and books, presumably in the hope that genius rubs off.
12/04/07
Top CriticAt 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.
11/28/07
Top CriticTouching if by-the-numbers.
11/24/07
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