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Cast

Ed Harris
as Don Holden

Zooey Deschanel
as Reese Holden

Will Ferrell
as Corbit

Amelia Warner
as Shelly

Amy Madigan
as Lori Lansky

Rachel Dratch
as Female MC

Dallas Roberts
as Ray

Anthony Rapp
as Dean

Deirdre O'Connell
as Deirdre

Sam Bottoms
as Brian

Mandy Siegfried
as Ruth

Darrell Larson
as Director

John Bedford Lloyd
as Leontes

Iván Martín
as Bartender

Robert Beitzel
as Rob

Laurie Kennedy
as Nun

Mary Jo Deschanel
as Mary

Jim True-Frost
as Doctor

Betsy Aidem
as Nurse

Michael Chernus
as Ben

Guy Boyd
as Hunter

Alexander Wraith
as Bartender

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• May 25, 2010

  Winter Passing is so easy to fall in love with that it almost seems like there should be a catch. All the characters are delightfully off-color and messed up. Zooey Deschanel gives what is probably her best act yet, but also plays out of those protagonists that really are not *nice* people at all and are all the more lovable because of it. She has flaws and problems, but you cannot help but love her. Will Ferrell is not bad, I never thought I would have reason to say that. He should stick to these type of roles. The film really is not heart-stoppingly original. It reminded me a lot of Junebug or even Little Miss Sunshine. I guess you could say that this type of film, the stereotyped indie film, is to me what a rom-com is to a twentysomething romantic. Or to a high school cheerleader. It's a toss up between the two. One final note, this also has a scene that me cringe, something that hardly ever happens, but at the begin Deschanel drowns a kitten! That is just sick! It is easy enough to laugh of Johnny Depp slashing throats, but drowning kittens is just nasty!
  Jake . Super Reviewer
• May 10, 2010

  Ah, another tale of a lost, disaffected young person that fruitlessly tries to fill their empty life with empty sex and drugs, and the family dynamics that led them to become that way. You know how these stories go. By the end, there's always some kind of acceptance and catharsis, and the characters end up with better relationships than when they started. Since most family dramas begin and end in somewhat the same manner, it's that middle journey that makes or breaks them, for me. How and why do the characters change? Winter Passing largely skips right over the how and why. For 90% of the movie Zooey Deschanel's and Ed Harris's characters are one way, and then in the last ten minutes they are suddenly completely different. I was so confused that I went back to check and see if I had unknowingly missed some crucial plot points or character development, but I hadn't. The viewer is actually expected to believe that these characters undergo profound and drastic changes as a result of about two brief conversations and a hospital visit. It's like they took a vague idea of a plot, and then filled in the runtime with melancholy gazing out of windows and lots of slow cigarette smoking. As for the other two main characters, they never really contributed anything of substance to the story. I suppose Amelia Warner's character was included to provide some initial friction for Reese and offer her another insight into her father's personality, and she looked so beautiful doing it that I'm willing to cut her some slack. But Will Ferrell's character was completely unnecessary. All he did was add forced quirkiness to a movie that absolutely did not need it. It didn't even fit the tone, and his sub-plot was a pointless way to pad out the running time. I didn't hate Winter Passing, I just thought that its story needed a lot more thought, focus, and fleshing out. It feels incomplete. Family drama is among the most character driven genres, and they just don't work well without strong and well-defined character arcs.
  Lewis C Super Reviewer
• Oct 22, 2009

  Didnt like this movie at all
  Brody M Super Reviewer
• Oct 16, 2009

  Zooey Deschanel is amazing in this role as Reese Holden... The director Adam Rapp charts the shaky reunion of an estranged father and daughter. The daughter has been promised $100,000 for publication of love letters written by her legendary, but reclusive father and her mother. In search of these letters, Reese finds the importance of the family. Very interesting movie which I'll recomend on a DVD.
  Panta O Super Reviewer

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