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Evening (2007)

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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 93

Beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull, Evening is a collossal waste of a talented cast.

Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 25

Beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull, Evening is a collossal waste of a talented cast.

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As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago, one she kept secret all their lives. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (played by Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), whom she'd remember so many years later as the love of her life. As her daughters try to face the loss of

R, 1 hr. 57 min.

Drama

Directed By: Lajos Koltai

Written By: Michael Cunningham, Susan Minot

In Theaters: Jun 29, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Sep 25, 2007

Box Office:$12.4M

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Cast

Claire Danes
Ann Grant
Toni Collette
Nina Mars
Vanessa Redgrave
Ann Lord
Patrick Wilson
Harris Arden
Hugh Dancy
Buddy Wittenborn
Natasha Richardson
Constance Haverford
Mamie Gummer
Lila Wittenborn
Eileen Atkins
The Night Nurse
Meryl Streep
Lila Ross
Glenn Close
Mrs. Wittenborn
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Luc
Barry Bostwick
Mr. Wittenborn

Critic Reviews for Evening

All Critics (132) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (93) | DVD (2)

Even as I admired most of the performances -- and I do stress most of them -- I found myself searching in vain for one character to care about.

July 6, 2007 Comment

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Evening's visual period splendour, its vivid characterizations and their comfortably clich�d relationships somehow draw us in and make us care.

June 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Rob Salem

Toronto Star

Top Critic

Evening achieves a kind of wisdom, though it's a strange and bitter wisdom. The film arrives at a pessimistic and almost nihilistic view of life as something not very important -- and then invites us to take strength and comfort in the notion.

June 29, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Great cast, mediocre writing.

June 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger

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Lisa Rose

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

Proves that not every book deserves its own film.

June 29, 2007 Comment

Manohla Dargis

New York Times

Top Critic

This weeping ladydrama -- this cinematic doily, this chintz wing chair from a P-town antique boutique -- takes us to the oxymoronic world of WASP emotion.

June 29, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

Given its stellar cast -- including Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep and Glenn Close -- and source material, it's hard not to think it should be better.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune

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Mike Scott

Times-Picayune

Antiseptic bourgeois swank

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

What's the difference between slasher films and chick flicks? In slasher films they suffer less, and they die quicker. Evening, bless its banal heart, is a chick flick in all its fatuous glory.

February 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly

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Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

Frankly I could watch Danes, Collette, Streep, Close, Richardson, etc., as they go food shopping, which just goes to show what a bunch of great actors can do for a fairly conventional tear-jerker.

October 25, 2007 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com

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Scott Weinberg

DVDTalk.com

Strong cast is best part of tragic romantic drama.

October 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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S. Jhoanna Robledo

Common Sense Media

The performances are oddly muted, as if the screenplay refuses to allow a fine cast full rein. But those who loved the book can be assured that it has been translated faithfully enough to the screen.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: This is London

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Derek Malcolm

This is London

An old lady takes a long time to die in this po-faced literary effort as a bed-ridden Redgrave looks back to the golden summer when her young self (Danes) found love.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: thelondonpaper

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Neil Smith

thelondonpaper

Some big names have been assembled for this old-fashioned "woman's picture" about thwarted expectations and lifelong regrets.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Independent

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Anthony Quinn

Independent

I am against the exploitation of women for sentimental screen purposes (Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart). But what can you do? Here they moon and croon across a time divide.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Financial Times

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

An affected and overwrought adaptation of Susan Minot's novel about a dying woman's memories of a complicated romantic incident in her youth.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

Evening is a film about regrets that doesn't say an awful lot, but somehow holds your attention with the scenes between Redgrave and Streep sure to bring a tear to your eye - or at least your mum's.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]

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David Edwards

Daily Mirror [UK]

Dull. It's hard to engage with the characters, the themes are underdeveloped and the tone is flat as the waters lapping the Wittenborn beach.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4

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Daniel Etherington

Film4

Adapting from Susan Minot's bestseller, Hungarian director Lajos Koltai's (Fateless) pulls together a formidable cast - Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Toni Collette - but then leaves them to wade through a sickly stew.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film

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Carmen Grey

Total Film

Evening is a slow burner, so slow in fact the credits roll before it ever gets going.

September 21, 2007 Full Review Source: BBC

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Laura Bushell

BBC

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On her deathbed and filled with regret, a woman recalls a brief romance with a doctor while her daughters contemplate their lives.Though the film is slow in places, I found it profound and profoundly moving. Ultimately, it supports domestic life, but it does so by denouncing regret -- a journey that resonates with me.

September 20, 2011

Jim Hunter

Super Reviewer

Such a stellar cast wasted in a tedious, boring film that is incapable of being remotely interesting or gipping.

November 5, 2009

Carlos Magalh�es

Super Reviewer

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