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Expired (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 10

Heartwarming and acidic in turns, this offbeat dramedy about two meter maids in love features solid performances from Samantha Morton and Jason Patric.

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3

Heartwarming and acidic in turns, this offbeat dramedy about two meter maids in love features solid performances from Samantha Morton and Jason Patric.

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A sheltered meter maid and her disturbed fellow parking enforcer discover that love can bloom even while working in a job that most folks despise in this unflinching look at modern love starring Samantha Morton and Jason Patric. Hypersensitive Claire (Morton) spends her days doling out parking tickets, and her nights caring for her ailing mother (Teri Garr). Jay (Patric) is a highly intelligent parking enforcement officer whose bitterness over squandered opportunities has grown to border on

Unrated, 1 hr. 44 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Cecilia Miniucchi

Nov 17, 2009

MCR Releasing

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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (10) | DVD (1)

One of those Sundance "comedies" that make you contemplate slitting your wrists.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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The performances are expert, but can't make up for a flat script and direction.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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The funny, sad, offbeat, sometimes off-the-beat romance Expired is one of those precariously balanced movies that might fall to pieces with a different cast.

June 20, 2008 Comment
New York Times
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Despite terrific efforts from its lead players, Expired runs its meter out long before the end.

June 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
Newsday
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Morton is one of those tingly actresses whose skin barely covers her soul, and to watch her search for tender mercies in a crazy-hostile world is a gift. The film is appallingly good.

June 16, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Magazine | Comment
New York Magazine
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An occasionally cringe-inducing mix of pathos and humor, the tightly scripted and well-acted tale follows a lonely, vulnerable meter maid who falls into a comically horrific relationship with a colleague incapable of emotional intimacy.

May 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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How likely is it that love, not to mention hot sex, can blossom between two people who've picked identical careers dedicated to punishing the rest of us? Delightfully kinky sex and the city meter maid romp.

November 25, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

one of the most inept, poorly-mounted productions of the decade

November 12, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

Death and regret hang over the film palpably, and Miniucchi's willingness to put her characters through disaster and humiliation while still plainly empathizing with them is what keeps the film surprising and its characters winning, in spite of themselves

August 8, 2009 Full Review Source: indieWIRE | Comment
indieWIRE

Unconventionally quirky in its unassuming blue-collar bluntness, Expired is comically horrifying in its examination of lonely people living on the fringe of professional obscurity and personalized disarray.

June 27, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Movie Eye

Expired pretends to be a valentine to society's outcasts, but it's just one more indie comedy that mocks its characters while sucking up to its knowing audience.

June 26, 2008 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

Miniucchi's screenplay is an unwieldy blend of pathos and unsettling moments, which become increasingly uninteresting as the film trudges to a dreary close.

June 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Call it an anti-rom-com, and see it if you can.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The temptation is to say Expired is closer to "Misfired," but there are just enough good things here (particularly Samantha Morton as a lonely-in-love meter maid) to avoid that label.

June 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

Tough indie drama features great performances.

June 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Turns its uncomfortable central relationship into a fascinating study of symbiotic personalities.

June 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Metromix.com | Comment
Metromix.com

Locating both Claire's loneliness and Jay's anger as partial outgrowths of their detested profession handing out parking meter violation tickets, Expired coasts along on a distinctively odd wavelength.

June 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Both Patric and Morton give brazenly fearless performances, yet these talents are left tangoing to a tune that's nowhere near worthy of them.

June 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

Assuming the shape of an old-fashioned indie, this offbeat romantic fable is a minor work that promises better things from its director; the narrative is considerably elevated by lead performers Jason Patric and the endlessly creative Samantha Morton.

June 16, 2008 Comment

How likely is it that love, not to mention hot sex, can blossom between two people who've picked identical careers dedicated to punishing the rest of us? Delightfully kinky sex and the city meter maid romp.

June 12, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze
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Audience Reviews for Expired

offbeat romantic comedy. samantha morton is amazing. jason patric's character is despicable. teri garr is surprising in her role, to say the least.

October 26, 2008
bookmunki

Super Reviewer

In "Expired," Claire(Samantha Morton) takes care of her invalid mother(Teri Garr) while working as a meter maid. That job has its share of dangers like arguments with drivers, awkward encounters with ex-boyfriends and being hit by cars. After recuperating from one such accident, she meets Jay(Jason Patric), a

November 13, 2010
Harlequin68
Walter M.

Super Reviewer

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