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Take (2008)

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Reviews Counted:27

Fresh:12

Rotten:15

Average Rating:5.1/10

Consensus: A story of redemption held together with flashbacks, Take has moments of emotional intensity, but is ultimately undone by preachiness.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some violent and disturbing content.

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jul 18, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: Take occurs over two days – one day in the present and one day in the past. In the present, Ana drives through the desert to witness the execution of the man who has dominated her life for the... Take occurs over two days – one day in the present and one day in the past.

In the present, Ana drives through the desert to witness the execution of the man who has dominated her life for the past seven years, the man she has never spoken to. Saul, with his priest, waits out the final hours of his life. Each must grapple with what their lives have become since the day their paths crossed so many years ago.

In the past, Ana discovers that her seven-year old son, Jesse, has been kicked out of school. Unless she can find a night shift and home-school him, she will be forced to put Jesse in special-ed. Determined to save him from being lost in a world where he doesn't belong, Ana attempts to restore order to their lives.

On that same day, Saul is in a desperate fight against time to pay off his gambling debt and care for his ailing father. Forced to take on a precarious assignment for quick cash, he is faced with one struggle after another until he finds himself staring down a fateful moment of decision.

When Ana and Saul cross paths, it only takes an instant for their lives to be tragically connected. It is not until the present day, when Ana arrives at the prison to face the man who destroyed her life, that both Ana and Saul discover who they are and how far the soul will go to survive. --© Official Site
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Starring: Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, Bobby Coleman, David Denman

Starring: Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, Bobby Coleman, David Denman, Adam Rodriguez, Bill McKinney, Emily Harrison

Director: Charles Oliver

Director: Charles Oliver
Screenwriter: Charles Oliver
Studio: Liberation Entertainment

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Oliver and director of photography Tristan Whitman have created an excellent look, using a bleached-out colour palette to good advantage.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
06/14/08
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

This is an uneven directorial debut -- but not an unaccomplished one. Oliver is a name to look out for -- it would be great to see what would happen if he worked with someone else's script.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
08/13/08
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

Stylistically as well as thematically complex.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
08/13/08
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter

Clean but adult-themed movie that takes an intense look at extreme forgiveness and restorative justice.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
08/13/08
Genelle Pugmire
Genelle Pugmire
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

A heartfelt plea for penal reform.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
07/13/08
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Dramatically, however, Take consistently works, and, with such a story, that's an amazing thing.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
07/18/08
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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Refreshingly ambitious and thoughtfully constructed.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
07/16/08
Joshua Land
Joshua Land
Time Out New York

Oliver's film manages to grapple with some knotty questions about justice, even if it is not nearly as bold or ironic as Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine"

Full Review Source: indieWIRE | comment Comment
08/13/08
Leo Goldsmith
Leo Goldsmith
indieWIRE

A frantic mother and a desperate criminal cross paths with devastating results in first-time writer and director Charles Oliver's emotionally charged drama.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/18/08
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

While Take has a few moments of eye-rolling absurdity, the film has a way of slithering under your skin and staying there.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment Comment
07/16/08
Mark Peikert
Mark Peikert
New York Press

As a formal exercise in pent-up and unleashed emotion, Take is intense and difficult to watch.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
07/17/08
Paul Brenner
Paul Brenner
Filmcritic.com

This melodrama about capital punishment has no shades of gray, only beige.

Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | comment Comment
07/24/08
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

Charles Oliver's directing debut, Take, unfolds in sun-baked Southwestern locations, but it's a dreary affair all the same.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
07/25/08
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Oliver wants to defend restorative justice, but his interest in this form of victim-offender mediation registers only as an afterthought.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
07/16/08
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Village Voice
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Resides in the same lives-intersect-through-tragedy wheelhouse as 21 Grams and Monster's Ball, without those films' romantic underpinnings or powerhouse performances.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
07/24/08
Geoff Berkshire
Geoff Berkshire
Metromix.com

This sullen dramatic thriller is introspective to the point of being navel-gazing. And its up-to-interpretation form of 'conclusion' is fairly pretentious.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
09/12/08
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

It's like a full-length public service announcement.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
07/18/08
Joe Neumaier
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News

A woefully earnest indie about a crime and its aftermath.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/18/08
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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A dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
08/15/08
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

If there is anything the cinema needed less than another angst-ridden, cross-cutting tragedy about crime, fate, memory and redemption, it�s the kind shot in an ugly monochromatic palette like Take.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
07/18/08
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
 
 
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