A Hole in One (2004)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 10
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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 6
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Average Rating: 2.7/5
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Movie Info
A Hole in One is set in 1950s America. Anna (Michelle Williams), a passive young woman living in a small town, where she is betrothed to a powerful local hoodlum, Billy (Meat Loaf Aday), is searching for a key to her unhappiness. Her younger brother came home from the World War II a different man, and was subjected to shock treatments in a mental hospital before his untimely death. Dr. Harold Ashton (Bill Raymond) has been selling his new book, intended to advance the cause of a new scientific
Cast
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Michelle Williams
Anna -
Meat Loaf
Billy -
Tim Guinee
Dr. Tom Franklin -
Louis Zorich
Sammy -
Bill Raymond
Dr. Harold Ashton -
Wendell Pierce
Dan -
Merritt Wever
Betty -
Gerry Mendicino
Johnny -
Mark Day
Mark -
Ileen Getz
Nurse Aphrodite -
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (10) | DVD (2)
A Hole in One aspires to the Sirkian social satire of Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, but the result is closer to a Coen brothers film with all the funny parts removed.
Top CriticIts overindulgence in pseudo-David Lynch stylistics provides yet another distraction from a potentially intriguing story.
Things play out differently than expected, though not in any particularly interesting or entertaining way.
With its heavy symbolism and awkward, lurching pace, A Hole in One leaves viewers with little more than the vague conviction that falling in love is better than an ice pick to the brain.
Director-writer Richard Ledes shows better command of 1950s period atmosphere than he does of either his subject or his cast.
In writer-director Richard Ledes dreamy, '50s-era film, the lobotomy is touted as a way of controlling the uncontrollable and pacifying the anxious.
Interesting but, in the long run, aimless.
Dreadfully misconceived.
Quirky to the point of irritation.
The film's tapestry of snarky sights and sounds doesn't exactly shed a complex light on the social and emotional problems and behaviors of people who lived in '50s.
...from the opening titles, with their jangling ice-pick imagery, the film builds an appropriate sense of needling uneasiness...
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[font=Century Gothic]"A Hole in One" is a victory of design over any kind of coherence. There are at least three or four separate elements to this movie that never come together. The most interesting of which are the mental health issues and lobotomy but that is definitely from a historical perspective. And the movie misses a valuable opportunity to link the infamous procedure to the conformity of the 1950's.[/font]