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Wakefield (2017)

TOMATOMETER

73%
64%

AUDIENCE SCORE

67%

Critic Consensus: Thanks to a committed, powerhouse performance by Bryan Cranston, Wakefield is a fascinating character study of a decidedly unpleasant character.

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In Robin Swicord's adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's short story, successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife (Jennifer Garner) and children and neighbors. WAKEFIELD becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
  • Rating:
    R (for some sexual material and language)
  • Genre:
    Drama
  • Directed By:
    Robin Swicord
  • Written By:
    Robin Swicord
  • In Theaters:
     limited
  • On Disc/Streaming:
  • Box Office:
    $221,053
  • Runtime:
  • Studio:
    IFC Films

Cast

Bryan Cranston
as Howard Wakefield
Jennifer Garner
as Diana Wakefield
Beverly D'Angelo
as Babs
Ian Anthony Dale
as Ben Jacobs
Jason O'Mara
as Dirk Morrison

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All Critics (56) | Top Critics (22)

Uneventful and dull to look at, the film adapts a short story by E.L. Doctorow that probably should have stayed on the page.

June 22, 2017 | Full Review…
Top Critic

Cranston cranks his performance up to 11, enamored of his own work and incapable of hitting the brakes. And yet he never brings his character's conflicting motives to life.

June 22, 2017 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Top Critic

It isn't the dull midlife crisis movie it initially presents itself as. But it also doesn't do enough to lurch into more nightmarish territory.

June 9, 2017 | Full Review…
Top Critic

What a fine performance by Jennifer Garner, playing a character we see almost totally through the filter of her husband's viewpoint.

June 8, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Top Critic

Working from her own screenplay, director Robin Swicord delivers a film that balances wry humor and sly introspection.

June 1, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Top Critic

Thanks to another terrific Cranston performance, we hang in there.

May 26, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
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