A gentle, agreeable dramedy, Capacity reveals that Kinney has a unique hold on tone and shares a palpable charm with his actors.
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Diminished Capacity (2008)
28 %
Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 7 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 5.2/10
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This low-key comedy about memory loss offers mild pleasures but is too bland to fully resonate.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 4, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: After a concussion leaves him unfocused, short on short-term memory, and demoted from the political pages to the comics, Cooper (Matthew Broderick), a Chicago newspaper editor, travels home to Missouri to visit his aging Uncle Rollie (Alan Alda). On the verge of losing his home and... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda, Louis C.K., Jimmy Bennett
Director: Terry Kinney
Screenwriter: Sherwood Kiraly
Producer: Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Tim Evans
Composer: Robert Burger
Screenwriter: Sherwood Kiraly
Producer: Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Tim Evans
Composer: Robert Burger
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Suffering from a diminished level of interest, do we know how to live up to a title, or what?
07/15/08
I wonder if all this worked better as a book. It begins modestly interesting, but becomes merely agitated.
07/10/08
Didn't we invent film festivals so we could sequester all the star-studded 'how I spent my summer vacation' indie film projects and keep them out of our arthouses?
07/10/08
Although this is no 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', Matthew Broderick does return to Chicago for a wonderful, wacky little gem.
07/08/08
A slog through determined wackiness, it's apt to leave audiences cold.
07/07/08
The actors look as if they’re having a reasonably fine time, but there’s no sense of commitment here, no sense that this was a movie that absolutely, passionately had to be made.
07/04/08
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Top Critic
Smart and well-written, filled with good lines and just enough offbeat moments to make it interesting, not annoying.
07/03/08
Striving for low-key character comedy, Diminished Capacity ends up diminishing its returns.
07/03/08
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It has moments of sweetness, but not enough poignancy or wit to turn it into the endearing art-house comedy that it aspires to be.
07/03/08
Top Critic
The problem with this film ... is that it features too many other sad sack characters who ... contribute to an excess of sad-sackness.
07/03/08
Great, just what we needed: another rote exercise in indie-feely humanism.
07/02/08
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It’s the kind of lite movie you go and see with your mom, and she’ll say she liked it -- but then a year later, you’re both trying to remember what it was even about.
07/01/08
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A mediocre effort that never really goes anywhere and never really pays off, trying too hard to be funny without delivering on the premises introduced over the course of the movie.
07/01/08
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