Expiration (2003)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 5
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A young Canadian couple takes a walk on the wild side in writer/director Gavin Heffernan's feature debut, Expiration, which was shot on video over 29 months. Niki (Erin Simkin) tells her old pal Sam (Heffernan) that she's pregnant, and that he, and not her current slacker boyfriend, is the father. Sam takes his mother's engagement ring (Dad ran off when he was a child) and invites Niki out for a romantic evening in Montreal, planning to ask her to marry him. But at dinner, he loses his nerve.
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (5) | DVD (5)
Dumb movie with nice cinematography -- a pleasure to watch and a labor to endure.
introduces an unpretentious filmmaker with a promising future
Does anyone have a spare career to give Gavin Heffernan?
Episodic film, interesting in fits and starts, but some individual pieces prove more satisfying than the film's whole
A solid first film that shows remarkable skill both in front of and behind the camera.
The film is unjaded enough that its very guilelessness is often at least vicariously moving
An eventful ride with a memorable gallery of characters.
Promises much for its young creator's future, even as it delivers only minor pleasures of its own.
Though it was made on a shoestring, Expiration offers imaginative and soulful use of digital video.
...a memorable and undeniably captivating visceral experience.
Almost unreasonably good.
This may be one of 'those movies' where everything happens in one single night, but it's far from formulaic.
A student film of enormous ambition and modest attainment...precocious, perhaps, but also uncomfortably pretentious.
Has the freshness of youthful exuberance on its side.
Definitely recommended for the art house crowds . . .
Gavin Heffernan's 'Expiration' boasts a unique cinematic style and introduces an impressive new filmmaker.
While I sometimes found myself scratching my head a little, Heffernan provides just enough information to keep the intrigue at a maximum.
artsy fartsy to the point where even the actors' eyes seem to roll
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