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Flannel Pajamas

Flannel Pajamas (2005)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 22

Flannel Pajamas is a talky and overwrought love story that is redeemed by fine performances and character insights.

71

Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 6

Flannel Pajamas is a talky and overwrought love story that is redeemed by fine performances and character insights.

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liked it
Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 13,229

My Rating

Movie Info

When a blind date arranged by mutual friends results in a whirlwind courtship for an enchanted young couple, the pair soon discover that fate may not ultimately be so kind in director Jeff Lipsky's affecting romance. As the rain poured down on the night that they first met, Stuart and Nicole sat mesmerized in a small diner, wondering if life could truly get any better than it was in those early, magical moments. In the coming weeks they found that indeed life could get better, but as the young

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Drama, Romance

Jeff Lipsky

Apr 10, 2007

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All Critics (44) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (22) | DVD (2)

Flannel Pajamas is so gorged with gab it feels like a filibuster.

April 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
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Better to rent Scenes From a Marriage, Manhattan or My Dinner With Andre and stay home -- flannel pajamas optional.

March 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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.

March 2, 2007 Full Review Source: 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.

February 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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This is all quite fascinating.

February 2, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

January 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
Seattle Times
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Twenty minutes or so of cuts would probably have helped the movie pack a more potent punch.

April 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
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They ought to have cut both the film and the marriage a little shorter.

April 9, 2007 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
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The incisive moments of recognizable humanity, though, are outnumbered by those of awkward obviousness.

April 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Oregonian
Oregonian

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.

February 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Contra Costa Times
Contra Costa Times

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.

January 19, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com

[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.

January 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Both Nicholson and Kirk are terrific actors, but the script limits them and their performances.

December 5, 2006 Full Review
Kaplan vs. Kaplan

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.

December 5, 2006 Full Review
Kaplan vs. Kaplan

With "Flannel Pajamas" Lipsky has written an excellent off-Broadway play, not a film.

December 2, 2006 Full Review
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Audience Reviews for Flannel Pajamas

A finely crafted indie drama, with outstanding performances by Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk. It moves forward with such amazing clarity, and painful honesty. Anyone that has ever had to go through a divorce, or even a difficult doomed relationship, can recognize how real this movie is....and sad. This film shows a non-sugarcoated portrayal of love.
January 21, 2011
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Watching this relationship begin is like a bad car wreck. The couple's relationship progresses way too quickly - before we are able to get to know them well and before they are able to really understand each other. More to the point, Stuart is a first-class, grade A asshole. He's almost impossible to like.
What is interesting is the film's attempt to give us intelligent characters. It is as though Lipsky saw a Woody Allen movie and said, "I want characters who read in my film too!" Except, when Stuart goes off on his complex analysis of Nicole's character, it is more presumptuous than accurate, more like an authorial voice than his.
Structurally, Flannel Pajamas is a mess. Many of the "other things" that interfere in this couple's relationship seem to come from left field. This is particularly true of the mother-in-law's antisemitism, which was so radical a departure from the action that I wondered if this film was too autobiographical ... or simply poorly made.
But for all its flaws, I found myself charmed by Flannel Pajamas. I think I respect what the film was trying to do, even though it never got there. After all, life's events, which intrude on our relationships, never happen in manner conducive to good story-telling.
Overall, see a real Woody Allen movie or Scenes from a Marriage instead, but if you've seen all of these, then scrape Flannel Pajamas off the bottom of the barrel.
January 3, 2011
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Jim Hunter

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