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A Home at the End of the World (2004)

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Reviews Counted:109

Fresh:53

Rotten:56

Average Rating:5.7/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] strong drug content, sexuality, nudity, language, and a disturbing accident

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Dramas

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... 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 Jonathan has a nice family, and a particularly wonderful mother (Sissy Spacek). The boys not only become as close as brothers, but they also experiment sexually. The two lose touch, but find each other again in their mid-20s in the early 1980s, when Bobby (Colin Farrell) moves to New York and joins Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) at the apartment he shares with Clare (Robin Wright Penn), an aging hippie. Bobby and Clare become lovers, however, Clare had planned to have a child with Jonathan, who is now openly gay and who is still interested in Bobby, and to whom Clare used to be attracted. The trio becomes its own unique entity, questioning the traditional definitions of family and love, and dealing with the complications of their love triangle. Based on the novel of the same name by Michael Cunningham, who also wrote the screenplay and who was the recipient of the Pulitzer prize, this film marks the debut of director Michael Mayer. Erik Smith plays Bobby as a teenager, and Harris Allen plays the teenage Jonathan. [More]

Starring: Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek

Starring: Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek

Director: Michael Mayer

Director: Michael Mayer
Screenwriter: Michael Cunningham
Producer: Tom Hulce, John Hart, Pamela Koffler, Hunt Lowry, Katie Roumel, Jeff Sharp, Christine Vachon, John Wells
Composer: Duncan Sheik
Studio: Warner Bros.

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  • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in the lives of two best friends. The film charts a journey of trials, triumphs, loves and losses. Now the question is: can they navigate the unusual triangle they've created and hold their friendship together.
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    This script seems like a condensed-books version of a story that probably makes more sense in print form.

    Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
    08/07/04
    Jean Lowerison
    Jean Lowerison
    San Diego Metropolitan

    Casting is everything in a film like this, and in the major roles, Mayer scores two out of three.

    Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
    08/07/04
    Peter Rainer
    Peter Rainer
    New York Magazine
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    The film equivalent of the blind date described as 'really nice.' It's neither bad nor good, just sort of earnest and well-meaning.

    Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
    08/06/04
    Karen Karbo
    Karen Karbo
    Oregonian

    By the end of the film, you may get the sense that these are good actors still in search of good, fully formed characters.

    Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
    08/06/04
    Sam Sessa
    Sam Sessa
    Kansas City Star

    The only thing to look forward to in At Home at the End of the World is The End

    Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
    08/06/04
    Thomas Delapa
    Thomas Delapa
    Boulder Weekly
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    Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
    08/06/04
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    Although 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.

    Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
    08/06/04
    Richard Nilsen
    Richard Nilsen
    Arizona Republic
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    A narrative-heavy but performance- driven work that rarely achieves the poetry of the longing that it explores.

    Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
    08/05/04
    Duane Dudek
    Duane Dudek
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    Wonderful performances, dead-on casting and a touching story make up for the shortfalls of a condensed and awkward script.

    Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
    08/05/04
    Angela Baldassarre
    Angela Baldassarre
    Sympatico.ca

    I never believed a minute of the story. And I never cared.

    Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
    08/02/04
    Steve Rhodes
    Steve Rhodes
    Internet Reviews

    A sprightly but shallow tale of a defiantly untraditional family...but the pleasures of the picture largely make up for the affectation.

    Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
    08/01/04
    Frank Swietek
    Frank Swietek
    One Guy's Opinion

    What keeps the movie going, far longer than the screenplay deserves, are fine performances all around.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    Desson Thomson
    Desson Thomson
    Washington Post
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    An 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.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    Ann Hornaday
    Ann Hornaday
    Washington Post

    Sincere, 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.

    Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    Geoff Pevere
    Geoff Pevere
    Toronto Star
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    Never less than watchable and often quite moving, especially when Colin Farrell (as Bobby) or Sissy Spacek (Alice) are on screen.

    Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    Moira MacDonald
    Moira MacDonald
    Seattle Times

    There are Vermont maple farms that have less sap.

    Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    David Elliott
    David Elliott
    San Diego Union-Tribune

    This debacle takes Farrell, one of the screen's most charismatic young stars, and systematically drains him of the wary intelligence, Irish wit and wired energy that make him interesting.

    Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    Gary Thompson
    Gary Thompson
    Philadelphia Daily News

    It may be earnest but it is rarely convincing and never engaging.

    Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    Bruce Kirkland
    Bruce Kirkland
    Jam! Movies

    Doesn't quite satisfy -- it all seems too simple, too glowing -- but it tries, and that's something. Not quite enough, but something.

    Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    Tom Long
    Tom Long
    Detroit News

    Roberts, Farrell, and Penn don't appear to be in the least bit self-consumed; you really believe they're thinking about each other.

    Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
    07/30/04
    Wesley Morris
    Wesley Morris
    Boston Globe
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