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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
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Judd surely deserves the lion's share of kudos for the movie's success... Full Review |
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4/5 |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Overall, the film lacks energy and the plot has no driving force. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The best thing about Adams' film is its unhurried, casual naturalism. Full Review |
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The writing and directing by Joey Lauren Adams express an admirable naturalness and eschews rose-tinted solutions. Full Review |
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93/100 |
...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. Full Review |
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B |
Subdued and deliberate, but also sensitive and quietly moving. And it gives Judd a chance to shine as a real actress again. Full Review |
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If 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. Full Review |
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This 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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
In 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. Full Review |
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A- |
The baby-voiced costar of Chasing Amy proves an effortless filmmaker, turning Lucy’s journey into the awakening of a soul. Full Review |
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It's a Southern story, but not cloying in the way that many Hollywood versions of the rustic South are. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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.
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3/4 |
The 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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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