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Movie Info

A young woman (Erin Fisher) befriends a stranger (Cris Lankenau) at a subway platform, and together the pair experience New York City.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Aaron Katz
Writer:

Aaron Katz, Erin Fisher
Box Office (Gross USA):

$15.4K
Runtime:

1h 18m

Cast & Crew

Erin Fisher
Jamie

Cris Lankenau
Charlie

Aaron Katz
Director

Aaron Katz
Writer

Erin Fisher
Writer

Critic Reviews for Quiet City

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (3)

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July 24, 2008 | Rating: 4/6 | Full Review…

David Jenkins
Time Out
Formally impressive but tedious.

September 19, 2007

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
In place of Before Sunrise's verbal fireworks, the aptly named Quiet City offers something more like linguistic sparklers -- modest, yes, but charming all the same.

September 1, 2007 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Nathan Rabin
AV Club
Although the movie is hardly more ambitious than its young protagonists, there's a lot of value in a lazy day. Quiet City knows where to find it.

August 31, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
A talkfest like this is ripe for disaster, but Quiet City succeeds thanks to its two leads, Erin Fisher as Jamie and Cris Lankenau as Charlie. They're attractive and likable, and they hold our interest throughout.

August 31, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
Proof positive that life's mundanities are even more tedious projected onto a movie screen.

August 30, 2007 | Rating: 3/6 | Full Review…

Mark Holcomb
Time Out
Adulthood. . .looms on the horizon, but it is forestalled for an instant, or maybe forever. This lack of engagement with the world is both charming and maddening, and it made it difficult, for me at least, to truly like the characters.

August 22, 2017 | Full Review…

Dorothy Woodend
The Tyee (British Columbia)
It's a wonderfully goofy movie that was a fun watch.

April 15, 2009 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
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October 18, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film
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September 12, 2008 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
Quiet City may be modest in budget and muted in its ambitions, but for anyone who imagines that truly independent American cinema is dead, this most chaste of romances is a quiet film worth shouting about.

July 22, 2008 | Full Review…

Anton Bitel
Film4
Quiet City is a slight film, but it's so pure and precise and honest that it takes on stature beyond its actual size. As a work of art, it makes a big noise indeed.

September 14, 2007 | Rating: A-

Shawn Levy
Oregonian

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Audience Reviews for Quiet City

Sep 18, 2008

Couple meet by chance, they talk, go to the park, visit friends, go to an art gallery and then a party. That's all there is to it, plenty of dialogue which keeps the interest as does the interaction of the leads though it still feels forced and not so natural. This may be down to the awkwardness of the characters themselves. Cheap and cheerful it's a very simple film that some would argue shouldn't even be classified as film. It's more like forced realism or an orchestrated documentary. This is what real reality TV would be like if you took away the stupid "plots", manipulative editing and dodgy soundtracks.

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