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02/17/03
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Personal Velocity (2002)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:68
Rotten:31
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Uneven, but a keenly observed and well-acted film about three women's lives.
Theatrical Release:Nov 22, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $623,323
Synopsis: Three very different women confront life-changing decisions in this film derived from Rebecca Miller's book of short stories. Each woman has reached a turning point in her life. Delia (Kyra... [More]
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Parker Posey, Kyra Sedgwick, John Ventimiglia
Director: Rebecca Miller
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Reviews for Personal Velocity
All three women deliver remarkable performances.
01/24/03
You can't really blame Miller for being in love with her own words, but this film is more like a slide show accompanied by an audio book than a movie.
01/20/03
A trilogy of stories about women on the edge that features no less than three rotten dads.
01/19/03
One of the most highly-praised disappointments I’ve had the misfortune to watch in quite some time.
01/17/03
The whole comes across more like a Lifetime special than an insightful examination of the women's lives.
01/17/03
The whole film has this sneaky feel to it %u2013 as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as Very Important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a Hollywood product.
01/16/03
A stuffy bore, filled with amateurish psychological 'insights' that make it seem like a more-ambitious -- and infinitely more pretentious -- Lifetime channel cable movie.
01/10/03
None of the three stories has much narrative breadth ... but there is depth.
01/10/03
...works like a short story, or even poetry, in that it shifts our emotional center of gravity through a finely calibrated vernacular of gesture and language.
01/08/03
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01/08/03
Comes across like an audio book to which photos have been rather unnecessarily added.
01/03/03
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12/23/02
Confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please, and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses, nor their characters, deserve.
12/21/02
The acting is uniformly good by the three women stars, Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, and Fairuza Balk.
12/20/02
Together, Miller, Kuras and the actresses make Personal Velocity into an intricate, intimate and intelligent journey.
12/19/02
Personal Velocity seems tailor-made for art-house audiences. It still cradles that short-story essence...but takes it to a place that stretches just beyond the page.
12/16/02
It's a short film, but it takes us deep inside each woman's head; by the end of each segment, we can look at each character's face and know what she's thinking.
12/13/02
Very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary.
12/13/02
This beautifully realized film retains the essential qualities of short fiction: precision, compactness, a focus on epiphanic moments.
12/13/02
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