An overwrought melodrama with bold intentions but poor execution.
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12/05/08
The Girl in the Park (2007)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:9
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Sigourney Weaver delivers a towering performance in this poignant meditation on unresolved grief.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:2007
Synopsis: Enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg (Weaver) has cut herself off from anyone once near and dear to her, including her husband Doug... [More]
Director: David Auburn
Reviews for The Girl in the Park
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Essentially about loss, guilt and regret, Auburn’s film also examines Julia’s increasingly unhealthy obsession with her surrogate daughter, which gives it an air of uneasy tension that never amounts to much.
12/05/08
The film stretches credibility a little with the coincidences that could yet make Louise the missing girl, but gives the actors plenty to work with.
12/05/08
while there is a lot to like in Auburn's tightly focused film, it never fully pulls together.
12/05/08
Auburn leaves too many dramatic holes and blows his potentially explosive ‘Festen’ moment by allowing a confrontation over dinner to fizzle into anti-climax.
12/05/08
The kindest adjectives to describe Weaver's performance would be 'overwrought' and 'unsympathetic'.
12/05/08
Weaver’s still unresolved grief, subtly hits every note that Changeling plinked or plonked like a honky-tonk hokum artist.
12/05/08
There's a prissy self-congratulation about early parts of David Auburn's family-bereavement drama, though it got to me eventually.
12/05/08
It is not without its problems, but this is, at the very least, an attention-grabbing first feature with a fine example of ensemble playing from its cast.
12/05/08
Impressively directed, sharply written and emotionally involving drama with a terrific central performance from Sigourney Weaver.
12/04/08
Wryly amusing, achingly poignant and pleasingly understated, with a stand-out performance from Weaver.
12/01/08
...a sporadically overwrought but mostly compelling film...
10/30/07
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09/18/07
Auds can see what Auburn was aiming for, but his portrait of grieving and wishful thinking doesn't connect emotionally. He's not helped by Weaver's brittle, unsympathetic perf, which borders on caricature.
09/11/07
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