Virginia (2012)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 22
Brave, autobiographical, but also completely off the mark, Virginia is a frantic drama that fails to pull the viewer in.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 12
Brave, autobiographical, but also completely off the mark, Virginia is a frantic drama that fails to pull the viewer in.
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A single mother struggles to raise her son Emmett while dreaming of escaping her small Southern boardwalk town. Her long time affair with the very married, Mormon Sheriff Richard Tipton is thrown into question when he decides to run for public office. Things are further complicated when Emmett begins a romantic relationship with Tipton's daughter. Virginia and the town-populated by Amy Madigan, Toby Jones, Yeardley Smith-are full of secrets and everyone knows Virginia can only keep things
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Jennifer Connelly
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Ed Harris
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Emma Roberts
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Harrison Gilbertson
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Amy Madigan
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Carrie Preston
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (22)
A strong cast can't save "Virginia," Dustin Lance Black's film about a schizophrenic mom in a small Virginia beach town.
Top CriticIt's all rather wacky and hard to follow or fathom, although maybe that's attributable to Virginia's schizophrenia veering off on its delusional phase.
A bravely demented semi-autobiographical drama that never lives up to the potential of its high-powered cast.
Set among the hangdog hicks and arcade attractions of a fictional Southern beach town, the loosely autobiographical movie aims for roller-coaster passion but only flatlines.
There are so many moving parts spinning in so many directions that this movie's purpose is inscrutable and the noise of its grinding parts distracting.
The result here is the type of calamity that should be more compelling than it is.
Sensitive about characters exploring this culture and the conversations they must have trying to figure out relationships. It's not ridiculing or condescending at all.
Black seems to be aiming for some sort of loopy fantasia, a tragic fable about struggling with difference in the small-town South, but he's got more half-finished ideas than he can handle.
A trainwreck.
Shotguns so many elements onto the screen that it's difficult to know which to follow, cheer for or hate.
The film concerns a woman with psychological problems, her married lover and her 16-year-old son, but the tale wobbles between humour and drama in a disconcerting fashion.
Virginia is so scattershot it feels like it's a vehicle created to loosely hold a group of ideas rather than function as anything coherent.
Religious zealots and nonbelievers alike run amok, as discussions abound about post-mortem polygamy and romance materializing in outer space in the afterlife This, as erotic police handcuffs and Mitt Romney intimations kick in. Sex, Lies and Mormons.
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