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Flannel Pajamas (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 44 Fresh: 23  Rotten:21 Average Rating: 5.7/10
 
Consensus: Redeemed by fine performances and character insights. Flannel Pajamas is a talky and overwrought love story that is redeemed by fine performances and character insights. more
 
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 84 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 17, 2006 Limited
Synopsis:
Falling in and out of love with another human being can quite easily be considered one of the momentous events a person will experience in life. Indeed, it is the classic drama that so often fuels fantastic, larger-than-life tales. With his deeply affecting feature, Flannel Pajamas,... [More]
Falling in and out of love with another human being can quite easily be considered one of the momentous events a person will experience in life. Indeed, it is the classic drama that so often fuels fantastic, larger-than-life tales. With his deeply affecting feature, Flannel Pajamas, director Jeff Lipsky reminds us that the enormous, and sometimes devastating, magic of loving someone can be found in the subtle, everyday, real-life moments of a relationship. Stuart and Nicole meet through mutual friends and experience a magical evening in a local diner one rainy spring night; it may never get better than this. But it does, and a stunning courtship ensues, drenching the lovers in radiance. Inside the cauldron of their romance, their enchantment mixes slowly with their own human shortcomings, and the relationship evolves in a way that is as delicate and effortless as it is dizzying and defying. Lipsky's marvelously observed characters and dialogue are brought to life by warm, natural, and genuinely inhabited performances from Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk. A unique accomplishment, Flannel Pajamas is the kind of honest and truthful romantic drama that can only come from American independent cinema. --© Sundance Film Festival [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Julianne Nicholson, Justin Kirk, Rebecca Schull, Jamie Harrold, Chelsea Altman

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09/22/07 06:34 AM
Joshua Land
Time Out New York
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Twenty minutes or so of cuts would probably have helped the movie pack a more potent punch.

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04/30/07 03:52 PM
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com
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They ought to have cut both the film and the marriage a little shorter.

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04/09/07 05:35 PM
Eric D. Snider
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The incisive moments of recognizable humanity, though, are outnumbered by those of awkward obviousness.

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04/01/07 07:33 PM
Marc Mohan
Oregonian
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Flannel Pajamas is so gorged with gab it feels like a filibuster.

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04/01/07 07:32 PM
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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There’s nothing flashy about it... but in those quiet moments, a real heartfelt movie develops.

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03/26/07 09:06 AM
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)
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Better to rent Scenes From a Marriage, Manhattan or My Dinner With Andre and stay home -- flannel pajamas optional.

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03/22/07 04:16 PM
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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In his sophomore feature, Lipsky doesn't feel the need to pump the movie with showy visual tricks. You don't even know he's there most of the time, which is probably a compliment.

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03/02/07 04:47 PM
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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Flannel Pajamas is a sharply observed dissection of a couple's relationship, from blind date to marriage to difficulties over everything from whether to get a dog to when to have a baby.

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02/22/07 02:12 PM
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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This is all quite fascinating.

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02/02/07 02:42 PM
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Maybe Lipsky's been too direct in his screenplay; he makes us feel like informed witnesses to their relationship rather than participants. Which means, we spend most of the movie thinking, just break up already, please.

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02/02/07 02:40 PM
Mary F. Pols
Contra Costa Times
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It's a harsh look at a love that seems good until it isn't any more... and frankly, I got tired of both of these people long before they got tired of each other.

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01/19/07 08:20 AM
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com
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This is the kind of introspective drama in which a determined pair of young, very fine actors and a strong filmmaker put everything on the line to explore emotional truth wherever it exists.

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01/12/07 02:58 PM
Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
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[Writer/director] Lipsky has something to say about the impossibility of human beings to love each other, but his language is that of an amateur playwright who does not know when he is only repeating cliches.

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01/11/07 04:27 PM
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Both Nicholson and Kirk are terrific actors, but the script limits them and their performances.

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12/05/06 10:09 AM
Jeanne Kaplan
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
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Kirk and Nicholson provide solid acting throughout the movie. Lipsky's writing is frequently original. However, the overall sense of this film is that it lacks credibility.

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12/05/06 10:08 AM
David Kaplan
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With "Flannel Pajamas" Lipsky has written an excellent off-Broadway play, not a film.

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12/02/06 06:46 AM
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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[Star Julianne] Nicholson does remarkable work in an unsympathetic role, helped by [director Jeff] Lipsky's fine control of his characters.

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12/01/06 03:49 PM
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
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It's as close to what the disintegration of a real-life relationship looks like as you'll ever see onscreen.

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12/01/06 03:48 PM
Teresa Budasi
Chicago Sun-Times
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Sometimes a movie improves on second viewing and I liked Flannel Pajamas better when I screened it again.

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11/30/06 01:24 PM
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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