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Sunday (1997)

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 1

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Writer-director Jonathan Nossiter's first feature film is a moody exploration of assaults upon, and shifts in, personal identity. The movie's action all takes place on a Sunday in a poor section of the New York City borough of Queens. Oliver (David Suchet) is a newly homeless middle-aged man who was downsized out of his job as a mid-level functionary at a computer corporation and lost his wife and family because of his employment troubles. Out walking in the borough, Oliver collides with

Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama, Romance

Jonathan Nossiter, James Lasdun

Nov 2, 2004

Nathan Productions/Turtle Run

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All Critics (32) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (5) | DVD (3)

It's Suchet and Harrow, exploring the wellsprings of loneliness, who provide the real glimmers of grace.

May 11, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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Feels more and more like an overly schematic exercise in cinematic hide-and-seek.

April 17, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Funny, intensely moving, scary, dream-like film.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Film.com
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An arresting film, at once lyrical and gritty.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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Nossiter does such an admirable job of enmeshing us and his two principals ... in their strange fairy-tale afternoon.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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The heart of the film is strong.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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A superior performance by Suchet helps keep this dry drama afloat

October 11, 2002 Comment
Lawrence Journal-World

Powerfully honest and risky performances from Suchet and Harrow propel the film.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Sunday

What a crack pipe movie and as I was just starting to be interested it ended.

October 17, 2006
dreamfaeries

Super Reviewer

"Sunday" starts at dawn as the denizens of a men's shelter in Queens, New York wake up and prepare themselves to face the world, hopefully finding some way to spend their days. One of their number, Oliver(David Suchet), a bespectacled middle-aged man goes for a walk and is accosted by Madeleine(Lisa Harrow), an out of

August 17, 2006
Harlequin68
Walter M.

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