Keane (2004)
83 %
Reviews Counted: 58 Fresh: 48 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus:
The scrutinizing camera angles of Keane might at first feel too close for comfort, but this powerful portrait of a man distraught by the abduction of his child plumbs the depths of mental illness and the corners of fleabag hotels in an intimate and touching examination of the seedier side of life.
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 9, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: British actor Damian Lewis (BAND OF BROTHERS) gives a stunning lead performance in Lodge Kerrigan's powerful drama KEANE. He stars as William Keane, a man whose daughter was recently abducted at the Port Authority in Manhattan, so he patrols the bus depot, recreating in his mind exactly how... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan, Tina Holmes, Stephen Henderson
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08/16/07
Only Kerrigan's previous Clean, Shaven surpasses Keane as a sympathetic study of a man unravelled.
06/19/07
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06/24/06
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[Lewis] immerses himself so deeply in Keane's psyche and skin that you easily forget this is acting, not real life.
06/16/06
The film achieves a dramatic intensity that is both admirable and frustrating.
06/16/06
Top Critic
Aside from Lewis's excellent acting, there's little reason to spend two hours with Keane.
03/17/06
Lewis makes Keane's paranoia our paranoia. Kerrigan limits our world to his world. And that's how this grimly shot, roughly felt drama pulls us in.
01/20/06
When it comes to an emotional payoff at the end, unlike most Hollywood films, it has earned it.
01/12/06
Top Critic
The role of Keane is a tall order, as he's onscreen for every frame of the film, but Lewis is just brilliant, holding our attention and ultimately our compassion for a deeply troubled man.
01/12/06
A psycho-underworld tour de force like Irreversible or The Machinist, impressive as far as it goes (not far), single-minded but without enough on its mind, a gimmick flick.
12/15/05
The entire second half of the film...is unbearably tense....Lewis, whose performance is the overwhelming center of the piece, deserves a large share of the credit for making the entire thing so grueling.
12/15/05
Lodge Kerrigan is one of the great, though largely unheralded, filmmakers of our time.
12/06/05
It's in that breathtaking humanism, its illustration of the way we connect to one another, and how brittle that social fabric can be, that the film touches on sublimity.
11/16/05
[Damian Lewis] is utterly riveting as a man who is all too aware that he's looking into the abyss and the scenes where he dips into outright mentalism are extremely uncomfortable to watch.
11/02/05
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