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The Same River Twice

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The Same River Twice (2003)

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Reviews Counted:31

Fresh:21

Rotten:10

Average Rating:6.7/10

Consensus: An insightful documentary about the passage of time for a group free spirits.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Sep 10, 2003 Limited

Synopsis: In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends... In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side of their counterculture youths and into adulthood. By interspersing reels from the original '70s river trip and documentary footage taken 30-some years later, river guide Jim and fellow travelers Barry, Jeff, Cathy, and Danny are seen both as young, idealistic (and often naked) travelers and older (fully clothed) men and women, some of whom have held onto the counterculture's ideals more than others. Moss often films his grown-up subjects as they watch their younger selves on the screen, capturing genuine moments of memory and reflection. [More]

Director: Robb Moss

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Sweet, sensitive and insightful.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
03/12/04
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Intimate, quietly illuminating documentary.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
01/23/04
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
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Any promise that Same River will make a grand statement about vanished ideals or changes in the culture are dashed quickly ... but it remains a likable portrait of how youth looks from the perspective of middle age.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
11/28/03
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

At its core, The Same River Twice is about a process everyone goes through, and the recognition that change is inevitable and we can't be young forever.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
12/09/04
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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Most of the river rats have achieved lives that they would call happy, but watching their reactions while they view footage of their carefree younger selves will put a lump in many throats.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
01/08/04
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

It is poignant to see the young bodies aged.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
03/26/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

The Same River Twice is far from an arthritic exercise in hippie nostalgia. There is a seasoned richness and vivid specificity to these lives, for all their hurts and losses.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
03/11/04
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly

Thoroughly entertaining.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
08/12/03
Eric Campos
Eric Campos
Film Threat

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Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/12/05
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
eFilmCritic.com

Poignant but not particularly deep.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/15/03
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter

It's Moss' disinclination to judge that gives what might otherwise be a slight film its genuine poignancy.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
03/26/04
Karen Karbo
Karen Karbo
Oregonian

Other documentaries have crisscrossed between time frames, but Moss' beguiling The Same River Twice represents one of the most effective uses of the device.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
03/12/04
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Poignant documentary.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/11/03
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's a generous document of cultural passage, and not incidentally, the sexiest naturally nudist American movie since Murnau's Tabu.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
09/09/03
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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The documentary The Same River Twice will ring startlingly true to any ski bum who ever went legit.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
03/12/04
Michael Booth
Michael Booth
Denver Post

A poignant meditation on life as a work-in-progress.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
02/06/04
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

Treats its audience with unusual intelligence and serves up meaty food for thought.

Full Review Source: Boston Herald | comment Comment
02/02/04
Paul Sherman
Paul Sherman
Boston Herald

If you can get past the Big Chill setup, there is a fine piece of moviemaking here.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
09/12/03
Philip Kennicott
Philip Kennicott
Washington Post

Succeeds through articulate, nostalgic sequences of introspection linked by poetic camerawork.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
03/04/04
Robert K. Elder
Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune

A piercingly poignant then-and-now portrait of five friends who worked as summer guides on the Colorado River in the 1970's.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/11/03
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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