Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 92 Fresh: 79 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus:
Starting Out in the Evening features sharp dialogue and moving performances from the talented Frank Langella and Lili Taylor.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 23, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $568,917
Synopsis: Though he's spent most of his career as a character actor in supporting roles, Frank Langella gives the lead performance of a lifetime in STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING, based on the novel by Brian Morton. Flanked by Lili Taylor and Lauren Ambrose, Langella is the central piece in a film that... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Frank Langella, Lili Taylor, Lauren Ambrose, Adrian Lester, Jessica Hecht
Director: Andrew Wagner
Screenwriter: Andrew Wagner, Fred Parnes
Producer: Gary Winick, Jake Abraham, Fred Parnes, Andrew Wagner
Composer: Adam Gorgoni
Producer: Nancy Israel
Screenwriter: Andrew Wagner, Fred Parnes
Producer: Gary Winick, Jake Abraham, Fred Parnes, Andrew Wagner
Composer: Adam Gorgoni
Producer: Nancy Israel
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Reviews
Awkward and sometimes overly subtle, but compelling performances by a cast of normally supporting actors who make the most of their much deserved chance to carry a film.
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07/19/08
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04/03/08
Wagner has turned the page on a promising career, and it will be exciting to see what the next chapter brings.
02/28/08
Starting Out in the Evening is thrilling in a way that a movie larded with car chases and explosions can seldom be, because of the way it deals with that basic building block of civilization, the creative process.
02/24/08
Top Critic
Criminally overlooked, this is a great movie, about which I could find no complaint or overt flaw except feeling that Taylor (whom I do love) was mostly a distraction. See it if you can.
02/16/08
Langella's nuanced performance saves the film; the actor has an understated but powerful role, and he takes full advantage.
02/08/08
Wagner's film is an elegy of sorts for that once-mighty beast known as the New York Writer, a creature that now finds itself increasingly marginalized in a world in which readers are getting scarcer and shelf space for serious fiction is dwindling daily.
02/08/08
Top Critic
By and large, Starting Out in the Evening is smart and considered and grown-up and credibly human filmmaking.
02/01/08
Just may be the best film of 2007 that you've probably never heard of.
01/30/08
Starting Out in the Evening is just a movie about a dignified old white man who writes novels, slowly, on a typewriter. Clever concept.
01/23/08
What to do with this light, while it lasts? [Director] Wagner's problem is to find an answer to that question and also to offer some resolution to the conflicts of honesty and compromise the movie portrays.
01/18/08
Top Critic
A strong cast and a literate script make for a refreshingly subtle film.
01/18/08
Top Critic
This is Frank Langella's movie. He's been given a plum of role, and he bites into it with amazing grace and precision.
01/14/08
[Frank Langella] is a god of sorts to those who've followed his career for 30 years with an appreciation for subtle, forceful acting, and he's at the top of his game in Starting Out in the Evening.
01/11/08
Watching Frank Langella in this film is like seeing a brilliant new actor give his breakthrough performance.
01/10/08
A film so quiet that just the crunch of buttered popcorn might drown out some of its subtleties.
01/10/08
one of the year's most pleasing films, intelligently written and directed, and featuring a veteran actor giving the performance of his career
01/09/08
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