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States of Control (1998)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:6
Rotten:4
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Lisa is a Manhattanite who becomes disillusioned with the path her life has taken to this point. A sterile marriage and a dull career make her yearn to break free from her self-imposed and societal... Lisa is a Manhattanite who becomes disillusioned with the path her life has taken to this point. A sterile marriage and a dull career make her yearn to break free from her self-imposed and societal chains. Her discoveries about herself are shocking and the decisions she makes haunt her as she finds that a new life is more easily wished for than attained. [More]
Starring: Stephen Bogardus, John Cunningham, Ellen Greene, Jennifer Van Dyck
Starring: Stephen Bogardus, John Cunningham, Ellen Greene, Jennifer Van Dyck
Director: Zachary Winestine
Director: Zachary Winestine
Producer: Matt Janes, Priscilla Guastavino, Joanne Pawlowski
Screenwriter: Zachary Winestine
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Reviews for States of Control
The lead performance by Jennifer Van Dyck is hypnotic and devastatingly real and would have earned an Oscar nomination had the film been backed by the kind of money that usually supports such contenders.
A yuppie in a midlife crisis alternates between repression and indulgence in new experiences. Sensual but unsympathetic.
Even by low-budget, indie standards, this is an unusually claustrophobic, self-absorbed work whose commercial prospects are bleak.
An astute, thought-provoking film, but the ending left me just as dissatisfied as Lisa is throughout the movie, in her journey to not follow by the rules of today's superficial society.
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