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A Hole In One (2004)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:2
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4.3/10
Theatrical Release:2004
Synopsis: Set in small-town America circa 1953, A HOLE IN ONE is a screwball-noir starring Michelle Williams as Anna, a young woman whose desire for mental health leads her to covet its latest fashion --... Set in small-town America circa 1953, A HOLE IN ONE is a screwball-noir starring Michelle Williams as Anna, a young woman whose desire for mental health leads her to covet its latest fashion -- transorbital lobotomy. Her reasons are many. Raised in an archetypal cold-war family, Anna is haunted by her family's treatment of her brother as invisible when he returns "shell-shocked" from World War II and then by his sudden, unexpected death. Anna is scooped-up by Billy (Meat Loaf Aday), a small time gangster, when she is just barely old enough to be considered a woman. Eventually, Anna is caught between Billy and Tom (Tim Guinee), a sympathetic Korean War vet on Billy's payroll. Anna meets Tom on the day she is to see Dr. Ashton and get her head fixed, but will it be too late? Will it be possible for Anna to ever be truly happy? Featuring exquisite photography, rich period detail, an evocative score by Stephen Trask and based on meticulously researched stranger-than-fiction historical facts and medical practices, A HOLE IN ONE is the debut film by writer/director Richard Ledes. -- © Beech Hill Films [More]
Starring: Michelle Williams, Meat Loaf
Starring: Michelle Williams, Meat Loaf
Director: Richard Ledes
Director: Richard Ledes
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Reviews for A Hole In One
A Hole in One aspires to the Sirkian social satire of Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, but the result is closer to a Coen brothers film with all the funny parts removed.
Its overindulgence in pseudo–David Lynch stylistics provides yet another distraction from a potentially intriguing story.
Things play out differently than expected, though not in any particularly interesting or entertaining way.
With its heavy symbolism and awkward, lurching pace, A Hole in One leaves viewers with little more than the vague conviction that falling in love is better than an ice pick to the brain.
Director-writer Richard Ledes shows better command of 1950s period atmosphere than he does of either his subject or his cast.
In writer-director Richard Ledes dreamy, '50s-era film, the lobotomy is touted as a way of controlling the uncontrollable and pacifying the anxious.
First-time writer-director Richard Ledes's mystical tone and pervasive swipes from David Lynch tend to suffocate his satire, and stunt casting doesn't help.
The film's tapestry of snarky sights and sounds doesn't exactly shed a complex light on the social and emotional problems and behaviors of people who lived in '50s.
...from the opening titles, with their jangling ice-pick imagery, the film builds an appropriate sense of needling uneasiness...
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