Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 89 | Rotten: 19
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is an intelligent and poignant look at lives intersecting.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 6
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is an intelligent and poignant look at lives intersecting.
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Following up on her acclaimed debut, Clockwatchers, Jill Sprecher spins this intricate ensemble film about life's big questions. Set in New York City, the film focuses on five different characters with radically different perspectives on life. Gene (Alan Arkin) manages a large insurance company and is a compulsive pessimist, constantly bursting the bubbles of his more cheery colleagues. Walker (John Turturro), who holds a similarly bleak view of the world, decides that he cannot stand another
R, 1 hr. 44 min.
Sep 1, 2001 Wide
Nov 19, 2002
$3.0M
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (120) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (89) | Rotten (19) | DVD (11)
Resonates with intelligence and a poignancy.
Top CriticWithout getting grand or preachy, the Sprechers use an unconventional approach to coax us into asking ourselves fundamental questions.
Often messy and frustrating, but very pleasing at its best moments, it's very much like life itself.
Smart, serious and deftly composed.
Each of these stories has the potential for Touched by an Angel simplicity and sappiness, but Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, for all its generosity and optimism, never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments.
Smart and alert, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is a small gem.
lends higher philosophical and spiritual tone ... without preaching
A terrific film that follows several interrelated New York stories and the people barely existing within them.
Poignant, touching, and even philosophical, the film examines the unanticipated impact of seeminaly disparate events on our search for meaning and happiness through five interwoven stories.
Clea DuVall again shows why she's one of Hollywood's most under-rated actresses
So packed with intriguing ideas that it's well worth seeing, even if it feels rather clinical and aloof.
Playfully wavers on the meaning of true happiness, the notion of karma and luck, and the possibility of hope.
Deposita suas energias nos entrecruzamentos de seus personagens e se esquece de que, teoricamente, deveria girar em torno das visões destes sobre o mundo.
How many movies offer up frank discussions based on existentialism?
A dry, dim-looking film that's more about clever structure than meaningful stories.
Several intertwining stories in this elegant confusion of an ensemble piece of a small film about THE MEANING OF LIFE (only w/o the capital letters). Excellent performances abound.
June 26, 2011Super Reviewer
One of those intertwining ensemble stories that almost makes it but not quite. The titular "one thing" isn't always clear. It could be several things: fortune, happiness, love, guilt, faith, trust, fate, coincidence, et cetera. All the individual stories are really quite beautiful though, with moments of deep
April 13, 2011Super Reviewer
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