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Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 71
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 53

What is meant to be dreamy and romantic instead comes off as sluggish and dull.

17

Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 19

What is meant to be dreamy and romantic instead comes off as sluggish and dull.

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 2,238

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Young adolescent Sam Franks (Lindley Joyner) spends his summers away from school with his physician father (Peter Curtin), whose schedule barely allows for quality father-son time. Therefore, Sam idles away most of his time with neighbor Maurie Lewis (Frank Gallacher) and Maurie's handicapped daughter Silvy (Brooke Harman), who also happens to be Sam's best friend. One night following a dance, Sam and Silvy kiss for the first time, and go down to the nearby river. As the two are lazily floating

Jul 29, 2003

Paramount Classics

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All Critics (76) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (54) | DVD (10)

When it's over, Till Human Voices Wake Us is easily forgotten.

June 2, 2003 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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Despite being well acted and sweetly moving when it strips down to the tender poem at its heart, Till Human Voices Wake Us spends too much time playing to an otherworldly suspense that simply isn't there.

April 4, 2003 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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I'd recommend you actively or passively forget this one.

March 14, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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It walks an odd path through romance, psychology and the netherworld, but it's a walk worth taking.

March 14, 2003 Comment
Detroit News
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There's nothing really wrong with Till Human Voices Wake Us that some actual dramatic tension couldn't resolve.

March 14, 2003 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Detroit Free Press
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Extremely provocative, to both imagination and intellect.

March 14, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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Sometimes engaging, sometimes clunky.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Petroni may have chosen to move the plot along at a snail's pace to reflect the mood of Prufrock's poem, but there isn't enough lyricism in the film to save the story.

April 21, 2004 Full Review Source: Las Vegas CityLife | Comment

There's not quite enough mystery here, and no amount of pretty pastoral settings can make up for that.

April 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Comment
Seattle Times

Petroni, in his first feature directing job, turns a good idea into a slow-paced metaphysical miasma.

April 17, 2003 Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Comment
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It may not make much sense, but it's pretty seductive.

April 11, 2003 Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | Comment
Kansas City Star

The film strives to be poetic, but it exposes nothing especially moving or relevant. Rather, the engaging leads wander around like actors lost in an ill-fated exercise in subtext.

April 4, 2003 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

The movie fails to find a satisfying way to balance the stories, and Pearce's mannered performance doesn't help us enter into his elliptical journey.

April 4, 2003 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
St. Paul Pioneer Press

It'll take a lot of energy -- and even more patience -- for anyone to get through Till Human Voices Wake Us without yawning at least once.

April 4, 2003 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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Audience Reviews for Till Human Voices Wake Us

The idea is appealing, and the leads competent, but there's an obvious emotional deficiency in Till Human Voices Wake Us. Everything here is just too fluffy and metaphysical to have any real human weight to it, and though it probably read well on paper, the actual realization leaves a lot to be desired. Perhaps most

March 31, 2010
ceWEBrity

Super Reviewer

Supernatural/psychological/fantasy films need to abide by a set of thematic rules so that the audience can believe in their world. This film does not, which makes the entire thing ridiculously unbelievable, melodramatic, and choppy. Heard Australian version is told in linear form, not flashbacks, which may be better.

May 14, 2008
aliceinpunderland

Super Reviewer

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