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A Home at the End of the World (2004)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:18
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.1/10
Theatrical Release:Jul 23, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $887,724
Synopsis: Bobby and Jonathan have been inseparable since they were teenagers in suburban Ohio. Bobby has suffered many losses for someone so young, and is starved for love and affection. Awkward teen... [More]
Starring: Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek
Director: Michael Mayer
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Reviews for A Home at the End of the World
Top CriticFlawed but sincere -- the sort of thoughtful, adult movie that rarely appears in the summer.
08/19/04
Top CriticCasting is everything in a film like this, and in the major roles, Mayer scores two out of three.
08/07/04
Top CriticAlthough the actors do a magnificent job with the piffle, the characters hardly ever act the way real people do in the situations they are presented with. They act, instead, the way characters in a movie act.
08/06/04
Top CriticWhat keeps the movie going, far longer than the screenplay deserves, are fine performances all around.
07/30/04
Top CriticAn adaptation of another Cunningham book that, like The Hours, comes with its own set of challenges, which director Michael Mayer handles forthrightly, with precise emotional pitch.
07/30/04
Top CriticSincere, heartfelt and mostly hopeless, A Home At The End Of The World is a well-intentioned wetnap of a movie about the re-configured post-nuclear family.
07/30/04
Top CriticDoesn't quite satisfy -- it all seems too simple, too glowing -- but it tries, and that's something. Not quite enough, but something.
07/30/04
Top CriticRoberts, Farrell, and Penn don't appear to be in the least bit self-consumed; you really believe they're thinking about each other.
07/30/04
Top CriticBoasts actors who make the searching, agonized qualities of their characters feel real.
07/30/04
Top Critic[Cunningham] has preserved his book's romantic, idealistic integrity, as well as its acknowledgment of the role music played in forming a generation.
07/30/04
Top CriticFarrell is astonishing in the movie, not least because the character is such a departure from everything he has done before.
07/30/04
Top CriticThe problem here isn't exactly a descent into sentimentality; instead, it's more like a surfeit of niceness, the relentless kind that leaves no room for emotion, even cheap emotion.
07/30/04
Top CriticThe best reasons [to see it] have to be the subtle, nuanced performances of Mr. Farrell, newcomer Dallas Roberts, a never-better Robin Wright Penn and the endearing evergreen Pride of Quitman, Texas, Sissy Spacek.
07/29/04
Top CriticWe give the filmmakers a lot of credit for reaching out of their comfort zone, even if they reached a bit too far.
07/29/04
Top CriticVital nuances are lost, and what's left, despite good intentions and some redeeming qualities, is cloying sentimentality wrenched from dated material.
07/29/04
Top CriticCunningham's 1990 novel makes an assured, if not entirely satisfying, transition to the big screen in this terrifically acted exploration of the bonds that transcend traditional notions of family.
07/27/04
Top Critic... everything about this movie was so contrived and it feels so written.
07/26/04
Top CriticWe never fully know what those characters are thinking or feeling.
07/24/04
Top CriticAn intriguing look at an unconventional definition of family, whose members don't speak in Hollywood clichés.
07/23/04
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