Adams shows a sure-footedness about emotional transformation, both in her writing and directing, and has a real regard for the place -- her home state of Arkansas -- where her movie happens.
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11/09/06
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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
Top CriticWhat 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
A modest but not insignificant achievement: a movie that depicts smalltown Southerners without condescension, melodrama or caricature.
10/13/06
The best thing about Adams' film is its unhurried, casual naturalism.
01/18/07
An engrossing drama where transformation is the holy grail sought by a woman determined to change her life.
11/10/06
Ashley Judd gives a real performance in Come Early Morning, but the film is simply not good enough for her talent.
11/10/06
Come Early Morning is anchored by a deep affection for its very anti-urban locale and an authentic attempt to capture the people populating the milieu.
05/20/06
The writing and directing by Joey Lauren Adams express an admirable naturalness and eschews rose-tinted solutions.
12/29/06
A low-key, country-inflected drama with a striking lead performance by Ashley Judd
11/09/06
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 CriticWith 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
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 CriticCome Early Morning is a simple story, yet told with such conviction, delicacy and instinct for truth that is carries keen emotional power.
01/23/06
Top CriticAshley Judd's strong performance redeems an unoriginal movie.
10/30/06
Overall, the film lacks energy and the plot has no driving force.
01/24/07
In intent, but not execution, this familiar rural tale of redemption of an alcoholic sexually-loose woman brings to mind Robert Duvall's role Tender Mercies and Nunez's far superior Ruby in Paradise, also starring Ashley Judd.
11/03/06
Falls prey to bits of psychoanalytic shorthand and narrative predictability, but it offers the rare, meaty role for an actress in her late 30s.
11/09/06
Top CriticA mostly watchable, somewhat satisfying drama.
11/09/06
Top CriticBeautifully photographed by Tim Orr, Come Early Morning is the kind of small gem that's becoming increasingly rare in American films.
11/10/06
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
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