Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (2012)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 8
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Critic Reviews: 6
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Whether trodding the boards for paying audiences or performing at the kitchen table for her theatrical family (mother Diane Salinger, father Jack Heller, uncle David Proval, boarder Harriet Schock) the only place Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) has ever felt truly safe and entirely at home is onstage. Like so many actors she is not completely sure about the difference between real life and the theater and - as she willingly admits - she really doesn't want to. Stinging from a recent romantic
Cast
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Tanna Frederick
Panda Isaacs -
Judd Nelson
James Archer, Jimmy -
Diane Salinger
Vivien Cooper Isaacs -
Jack Heller
George "Grisha" Isaacs,... -
David Proval
Larry Cooper -
Julie Davis
Betsy Isaacs -
Harriet Schock
Sally Brooks -
Mary Crosby
Sharon -
Sabrina Jaglom
Judy Cooper -
Simon Jaglom
Willy Lewis -
Michael Emil
Uncle Misha -
Linda Carson
Aunt Karla -
Jack Quaid
Danny -
Eliza Roberts
Aunt Kit -
Peter Townend
Barry Lewis -
Emily Alexander
Linda Lewis
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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (8)
You will either laugh or cringe, depending on your enjoyment of comic melodrama (the kind view) or distaste for overindulged actors (the not-so-kind view).
Top CriticAltogether, it comes to resemble theater filmed by Paul Greengrass.
Though Jaglom intends for us to be charmed by show folk, the amateurish performances and perennially misjudged direction wind up portraying them instead as boundlessly needy narcissists.
The boldness is welcome, the execution awkward.
Self-consciously cribbing from Chekhov by way of Robert Altman, the filmmaker convenes an extended family of stage actors at a decaying country house in New Rochelle, where the Ambien-enhanced emotional pitch lingers north of perpetual hysteria.
An investment in theatrical self-indulgence with diminishing returns.
Self-indulgent drama in which braying actors spout utter twaddle about the Thea-tah.
Henry Jaglom applies what must by now qualify as a tradition of pointless agitation to the disruption of theater. Unsurprisingly, the results are disastrous.
If you want a fly-on-the-wall view into the private lives of theatre royalty, 'Just 45 Minutes from Broadway' is the movie for you.
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