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11/20/08
Come Early Morning (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 38
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Consensus: A quiet but moving film anchored by the unexpected depth of Ashley Judd's performance.
Theatrical Release:Nov 10, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $50,160
Synopsis: For her directorial debut, Joey Lauren Adams (CHASING AMY) offers this humble, small-town character study of Lucy (Ashley Judd), a 30-something Arkansas woman who, though a contractor by day, hits... [More]
Starring: Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Joey Lauren Adams
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Reviews for Come Early Morning
Judd surely deserves the lion's share of kudos for the movie's success...
02/28/08
custom made for Judd; she's brilliant
01/14/08
With an honest and starkly minimalist approach, Adams paints a vivid, often painful portrait of a woman who has nothing to look forward to except the next one-night stand.
07/10/07
What Come Early Morning does is create an utterly convincing central character, and surround her with a milieu and backstory that is sincere and convincing.
03/01/07
Overall, the film lacks energy and the plot has no driving force.
01/24/07
The best thing about Adams' film is its unhurried, casual naturalism.
01/18/07
The writing and directing by Joey Lauren Adams express an admirable naturalness and eschews rose-tinted solutions.
12/29/06
...nothing less than a minor key wonder of a film, a character study of novelistic complexity with a sure sense of place and purpose that seems akin to movies made before Hollywood discovered its corporate destiny.
12/17/06
Subdued and deliberate, but also sensitive and quietly moving. And it gives Judd a chance to shine as a real actress again.
12/01/06
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11/25/06
Top CriticIf and when Come Early Morning ever resurfaces on DVD, order it immediately—and while you’re at it, order Chasing Amy too, if you haven’t already seen it, and enjoy a dandy double feature with two country girls of enormous talent.
11/22/06
Top CriticThis is a quietly powerful film about small-town Southern living that avoids all the usual clichés and makes us feel as if we’re dropping in on real lives in mid-stream.
11/20/06
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11/18/06
Top CriticIn fact this film is generally about nothing. There's an attempt to show some growth in some relationships, but there really isn't any and we're left where we started.
11/18/06
The baby-voiced costar of Chasing Amy proves an effortless filmmaker, turning Lucy’s journey into the awakening of a soul.
11/15/06
Top CriticIt's a Southern story, but not cloying in the way that many Hollywood versions of the rustic South are.
11/13/06
In Come Early Morning, Ashley Judd delivers her most natural screen performance since Ruby in Paradise, the film that pushed her toward stardom in 1993.
11/13/06
Top CriticThe film has a worn, live-in feel, and its unhurried narrative captures the subtle rhythms of small-town life. Nothing much happens on the surface, but worlds of hope, hurt and determination lie right behind the characters' eyes, waiting to be discovered.
11/10/06
In a way, the movie itself is an example of that philosophy put into practice. [Director] Adams clearly did a lot of soul-searching as she wrote the story. Her introspective script provides another actress with a great role and a new start.
11/10/06
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