Downloading Nancy is a sick and twisted rollercoaster ride that climbs fast and drops slowly ... leaving you plenty of time to absorb its raw insanity along the way.
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02/01/08
Downloading Nancy (2008)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:5
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Unseemly, unsettling, and unremittingly bleak, Downloading Nancy is slickly made but mostly unpleasant.
Theatrical Release:Jun 5, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. It is a lie. After waiting several days, Albert realizes... [More]
Starring: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman
Director: Johan Renck
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Reviews for Downloading Nancy
A tawdry tale which suggests that in the Internet Age, if you're contemplating suicide but can't quite summon up the nerve to do yourself in, you might surf S&M chat rooms to find a sadist whose fetish corresponds with your masochistic tendencies.
06/03/09
Director Johan Renck essentially builds Nancy and Albert's reality out of an aggregation of overwrought kitsch... and so what seem like occasional lapses into deadpan moments of fantasy aren't always productive in contrast. Heavily art directed for unplea
06/09/09
Bello's performance is both naked and nuanced...An eerie, sometimes vague film in which the hidden emotions break through like sudden geysers of flame, searing all involved.
06/01/09
A film that may be too heavy for its own good. Christopher Doyle fans will love it while tolerating the harshness of the story.
06/10/09
Boasts a raw, brave performance by Maria Bello and a stylish cinematography, but suffers from too much style over substance. Its dull, stilted screenplay has poorly developed characters and lacks any real suspense.
06/09/09
An amazing example of talented actors doing their best to make something genuine of a complex concept but being betrayed by writers and a director who seem afraid to really let the film connect.
06/06/09
Maria Bello's fearless performance is the stuff of legend, but it doesn't compensate for a poorly thought-out script delivered with a production style so dry that it's surprising the celluloid doesn't crack while you're watching it.
05/27/09
Unquestionably one of the worst movies Maria Bello has ever done ... this isn't just bad, but 'Tideland bad.'
01/27/08
When you peel away this film's complex performances, at the core of its drawn-out suicide spectacle is pain so extreme, so alienating, and, in the end, so pointless.
06/03/09
In his arduous, sweaty attempt to be 'provocative,' what Renck does instead is make something transparent and fake.
01/31/08
creates a deadening sense of ennui not through empathy or lived-in performances, but tedium.
06/04/09
Tortuous, painful, confusing, contrived. It's enough to put the viewer on the couch.
11/26/09
For all the bad behavior on display, the emotional stakes remain hazily defined.
06/03/09
The actors gamely struggle to find some truth here, but their director lets them down: [Johan] Renck sees nothing other than True Events to exploit.
01/23/08
Top CriticMaria Bello and Jason Patric in a world of pain.
06/08/09
Some suspense arises about just how far the woman's sickness will take her, but it's overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the story.
06/05/09
Top CriticDownloading Nancy is a nasty exploitation flick tarted up with art-house actors and psychobabble.
06/05/09
You can't really blame Bello for taking every chance available to let her monster talent off its chain, even when the opportunity takes the form of something so ill conceived and unworthy (and dull and ridiculous) as Downloading Nancy.
07/10/09
Top CriticA chilly, bleak film about characters so programmatic that their plight is easy to shrug off.
06/04/09
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