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Mind The Gap (2004)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:10
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.6/10
Synopsis: Based on the premise that even distant strangers are connected to one another is some way, MIND THE GAP revolves around five seemingly unrelated people facing crisis points in their lives. While... Based on the premise that even distant strangers are connected to one another is some way, MIND THE GAP revolves around five seemingly unrelated people facing crisis points in their lives. While each person's life and problem is different from the next, they are all led to New York City, where without knowing it, they will change each other's lives forever. The pursuit of happiness at the heart of this drama comes in many forms, with a single father named Sam trying to expand his social circle through a speed dating service, and a street performer named Jody Butler taking her act to the stage. Despite the disparity between them, each character must face the same challenge--to come to grips with their past in order to move on towards the future. [More]
Starring: Alan King, Elizabeth Reaser, Christopher Kovaleski, Charles Parnell
Starring: Alan King, Elizabeth Reaser, Christopher Kovaleski, Charles Parnell, Jill Sobule
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Reviews for Mind The Gap
It's moving, poignant, funny, and charming. Best of all, the characters get the closure they need and when they find renewed hope, it lifts your spirits.
The coincidences are almost all supremely transparent and the characters gratingly quirky, two faults that committed acting almost redeems. But not quite.
The performances are solid, even when the roles are aggressively whimsical.
Because the performances are so true, we believe in these people, even when they're doing unbearably wacky things.
There are a couple of affecting moments here and there, but they are lost amid more than two snail-paced hours of often maudlin tedium.
You can see what's coming five minutes into the movie, but capable acting lends it a certain superficial charm.
Warm-hearted but clear-eyed indie effort richly repays audience patience during deliberately paced and provocatively allusive early scenes with a cumulative emotional impact that is immensely satisfying.
An overly ambitious, overly complex and overly long opus that bites off more than it can chew.
Schaeffer, known for the quirky romantic comedies, goes a more serious route in this disappointing anthology of stories about love and forgiveness.
Eric Schaeffer takes a stab at the intertwined-lives ensemble-cast film.
In the crass, endless Mind the Gap, Schaeffer dares to ape Magnolia, telling five barely connected stories with all the grace of a juggler tossing open bottles of Drano.
Despite its flaws, Mind the Gap comes together as a beautiful portrait of seemingly unrelated ties that lead to important shifts in the lives of total strangers.
Schaeffer’s voice represents the Average Joe in a bar who thinks he has all the answers about the human condition but has nothing interesting to say. Yet, he keeps talking.
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