A slow, easy going, likeable film, starring two appealing actors, Guy Pearce (who moved me with his shirtless stature) and the always interesting Lili Taylor.
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05/16/04
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A Slipping Down Life (2004)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:17
Rotten:48
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Lili Talyor is the best thing in this uninvolving and unconvincing drama.
Theatrical Release:May 14, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Anne Tyler, "A Slipping Down Life" is the story of the peculiar courtship of an awkward young woman and a charismatic singer/songwriter, and the profound effect that their... [More]
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Reviews for A Slipping Down Life
An extravagant act of self-mutilation is not enough to spice up the humdrum plain-girl- meets-pretty- boy-and-teaches- him-the-meaning- of-love story.
05/01/04
Weaves a fragile --- and often funny --- spell.
06/03/04
Top CriticHas a lot going for it, but not nearly all it should have.
06/12/04
The director deserves admiration for sticking to her guns, but here's a heretical notion: Maybe the producer's cut would have been a better movie.
05/28/04
An underwhelming misfire of muddled tone and equally unclear emotion.
06/12/04
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05/29/04
Confirms what many art-house moviegoers of the '90s have suspected for some time now: that Lili Taylor is perhaps the best American actress of her generation.
01/22/04
The film’s tone is just all over the map.
05/27/04
The movie is not a great dramatic statement, but you know that from the modesty of the title. It is about movement in emotional waters that had long been still.
05/28/04
Top CriticToo precious, too self-conscious and far too enamored with itself to ever have any kind of genuine emotional truth.
05/27/04
Taylor is utterly believable even when the screenplay (from an Anne Tyler novel) is too self-consciously quirky, and Pearce nicely portrays the guy she obsesses over.
05/13/04
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05/29/04
Crap.
06/30/08
A Slipping Down Life has been sitting on the shelf since 1999, and it's not hard to see why.
06/18/04
Lili Taylor saves this slow-going pic.
05/12/04
There's probably not much of an audience for a turgid drama whose monotonous tempo rarely fluctuates from one scene to the next.
06/16/04
A Slipping Down Life would disintegrate in a cloud of cutesy, melancholic whimsy if it weren't for the talent of its two leads.
05/27/04
Top CriticIt's too common to complain that a book is better than the movie. But in A Slipping-Down Life, the score trumps what's on screen as well.
05/28/04
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