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Looking for Kitty (2006)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:7

Rotten:11

Average Rating:5/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and some sexual references

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Sep 1, 2006 Limited

Synopsis: In upstate New York, Abe (Krumholtz), a high school baseball coach, wakes up to discover that his beautiful wife Kitty has disappeared. When someone sends Abe a photo from a newspaper showing a... In upstate New York, Abe (Krumholtz), a high school baseball coach, wakes up to discover that his beautiful wife Kitty has disappeared. When someone sends Abe a photo from a newspaper showing a rock star and his entourage, including a woman that could be Kitty, Abe heads to New York City to find her. Abe hires a private detective, a loner ex-cop named Jack (Burns), who is burying himself in his work to avoid dealing with the death of his own wife. Facing eviction from his apartment, it’s an offer Jack can’t refuse. Jack sees in this case a chance to finally put to rest his own grieving by reuniting Abe and Kitty. What emerges from this investigation changes both of their lives forever. -- © ThinkFilm [More]

Starring: Edward Burns, David Krumholtz, Shari Albert, Max Baker

Starring: Edward Burns, David Krumholtz, Shari Albert, Max Baker, Connie Britton, Rachel Dratch, Chris Parnell

Director: Edward Burns

Director: Edward Burns
Studio: ThinkFilm

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They're just too dull, and we start to sympathize with the women who left them both behind.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
10/24/06
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Burns and Numbers' David Krumholtz are very good in portraying Jack and Abe’s need to re-establish a human connection.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
09/27/06
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
FilmStew.com

Sentimental yet insensate, this forgotten '04 trifle is Burns at his worst ...

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
09/08/06
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Entertainment Weekly
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Burns seems not nearly as engaged with his story as one would hope. And why should he be? He could write another like this before lunch.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
09/05/06
Chris Barsanti
Chris Barsanti
Film Journal International

Another unsatisfying exploration of masculine anomie written, directed by and starring Edward Burns.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/01/06
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Burns simply doesn't delve deeply enough into his characters for them to have sufficient emotional resonance for the viewer.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
09/01/06
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

Burns turns in a nicely understated performance; but it's David Krumholtz, as Abe, who's the backbone of the movie.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
09/01/06
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Looking for Kitty offers moments of striking insight amid the inevitable self-indulgence.

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09/01/06
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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A disgruntled New York City private investigator forms an unlikely bond with a high school baseball coach from upstate in Edward Burns's latest exercise in maleness.

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08/31/06
Laura Kern
Laura Kern
New York Times
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Give Edward Burns at least a little credit for perseverance, because just about any other writer-director-actor who released a movie every couple of years to critical shrugs and audience indifference would've long since hung up his megaphone.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
08/31/06
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

It might be the most maturely conceived role in Burns's films, but the plot around it is flimsy, the visual storytelling simpleminded, and the general ideas for character one-note.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
08/29/06
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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Ends up being a bit erratic ... the whole thing culminating in an oddly unsatisfying conclusion

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08/29/06
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

Burns returns to the themes he knows best: old-fashioned young men trying to figure out the world and the ways of women while forging kind of unlikely friendships.

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08/28/06
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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The real holdout is Burns, whose habitual regurgitation of well-trod themes (romantic loss, masculine bonding, and maturation) continues to pay ever-smaller dividends.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
08/27/06
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

Naggingly thin and unlikely to withstand much theatrical scrutiny.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/25/06
David Rooney
David Rooney
Variety
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No climax, no real resolution, no nothing. One can understand why it remained on a shelf since it played Tribeca over two years ago.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
08/25/06
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

The most convincing and engaging of the six features Edward Burns has turned out since The Brothers McMullen.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
08/24/06
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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One of the best films of the year catches the loss and loneliness of two men unwilling to let go of the past and step into a new day.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
08/24/06
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
 
 
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