At the very least, Bonneville deserves to be seen as a challenge and a rebuke to our supposedly youth-obsessed age.
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02/27/08
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Bonneville (2006)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:16
Rotten:25
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: The amazing cast of Bonneville is paired up with a basic, predictable script and lackluster direction.
Theatrical Release:Feb 29, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $324,936
Synopsis: Writer-director Christopher N Rowley makes a strong directorial debut with BONNEVILLE, a different kind of road movie. After her adventurer husband, Joe, suddenly dies while they are in Borneo, a... [More]
Starring: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Christine Baranski
Director: Christopher N Rowley
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Reviews for Bonneville
Top CriticIt feels like the first healthy sign of post-Borat unification.
02/27/08
The actresses make certain you understand their motivations and quirks. It helps Bonneville step away from Lifetime Television treacle into something palatable. Perhaps even charming.
02/28/08
... sticks to a soothingly familiar itinerary, providing a welcome showcase for Jessica Lang, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen. As expected, they prove mighty good company along the way %u2014 which is fortunate, because there's nothing much else that qualifies
02/29/08
It's just great to see these three in sizable roles instead of being stuck in Hollywood movies where they pop up briefly to wash the dishes and dispense advice to the hot actress who's the star of the thing.
02/29/08
When you've got three of the nation's best actresses in leading roles, it doesn't matter if your script is only adequate and the audience really has to squint here and there to believe what's happening on the screen.
04/11/08
A heartfelt drama about a grieving woman who embarks with her two best friends on a pilgrimage across the West seeking meaning and closure.
02/29/08
It's the three leads who really make this material work. Lange is very sympathetic and relatable as Arvilla, while Bates injects some needed humor. And Allen is pitch-perfect as usual, as the film's moral center of sorts.
02/29/08
Bonneville is scarcely original and in no way earthshaking, but its notable cast is a pleasure to behold.
05/30/08
Top CriticWhile the premise of this roadtrip come buddy movie may be based on loss, the journey we take is a vibrant one
08/23/08
Except for Jessica Lange’s silent, expressive close-ups, the women’s journey in Bonneville is aesthetically and dramatically unremarkable.
02/29/08
The characters, situations and resolutions all are predictable and fit like a warm, stretched-out sweater with holes in the elbows.
04/25/08
Thank heavens for the practical presence and humour of Bates, and the quiet conservatism of Allen's performance as a pious woman scared of too much freedom.
08/29/08
The director needed to get a better grip on the destination of this scattered narrative, along with the actual journey. Though the sheer pleasure of Bonneville is simply watching these three gifted actresses work their magic on the movie.
02/25/08
Open the big cinema floodgates and Bonneville is just a trickle of Poland Spring, but the trio of ladies are always watchable.
02/27/08
Top CriticThe actors make us happy to be along for the ride.
02/27/08
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10/18/08
For a film about discovering your own journey, it sure sticks to the main roads.
08/29/08
This rarity in cinema -- a graying cast in a female-bonding adventure -- couldn't be more dull-humored or predictably maudlin without just calling itself The Bucket List 2.
02/27/08
What happens when you take 3 of the best dramatic actresses of all time and put them together in a road movie? Pretty much a movie that should have wound up on Lifetime.
07/22/08
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