Restless

37% of critics liked it

50% of users liked it

Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska
In theaters Sep 16, 2011
PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.

Movie Info

Cast: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Jane Adams (II), Lusia Strus, Chin Han
Director: Gus Van Sant
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hr. 31 min.
Genre: Drama
Theater Release: Sep 16, 2011
DVD Release: Jan 24, 2012
Synopsis: Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world. For Enoch, it includes his best friend Hiroshi (Ryo Kase) who happens to be the ghost of a

Critic Reviews

  • Dave Calhoun, Time Out
    All surface, no thought and quite horribly empty. More...
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    Restless is consciously lovely in the face of death. How rare. More...
  • John Hartl, Seattle Times
    This low-budget movie takes its time filling in the backgrounds of its characters. That works for a while, but when it's over you may wonder if that's all there is. More...
  • Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
    Gus Van Sant doesn't make bad movies. More...
  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    Van Sant lays on the whimsy with a trowel; Wasikowska's quirky thrift-store wardrobe and twinkling performance are enough to trigger migraines. More...
  • Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
    If anyone other than Gus Van Sant had directed Restless, the film could have well been impossible to sit through. More...
  • Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
    "Restless" is far more precious than profound. But that takes little away from this soulful teenage exploration of love, life and death. More...
  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
    A film that is often as insipid as one of Nicholas Sparks's commercial melodramas. More...
  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star
    "Twee" doesn't begin to describe this set-up, and it doesn't suit Gus Van Sant, or any director for that matter. More...
  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe
    Is the title meant as a joke? A torpidly precious love story about death-obsessed adolescents, the film's becalmed and embalmed in its own sensitive self-pity. More...