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Predictable but moving, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway is an understated and melancholic drama that gets plenty of mileage out of an outstanding cast that includes Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, and Sandra Bullock.
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway aspires to be serious about its subject. Yet in a curious way this sobriety works against it. Frank and Walt turn into schematically contrasting case studies, and the movie's sympathy for them eventually becomes patronizing. Jun 14, 2009 | Full Review…
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway aspires to be serious about its subject. Yet in a curious way this sobriety works against it. Frank and Walt turn into schematically contrasting case studies, and the movie's sympathy for them eventually becomes patronizing.
Richard Schickel
Randa Haines' sappy, rather dull melodrama about the friendship between two eccentric old men is mostly a showcase for its stars, Robert Duvall and Richard Harris. Jun 27, 2007 | Rating: C
Randa Haines' sappy, rather dull melodrama about the friendship between two eccentric old men is mostly a showcase for its stars, Robert Duvall and Richard Harris.
Emanuel Levy
There aren't really any surprises, but it's a delight to see a movie which idles away without anything more pressing on its mind than people. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
There aren't really any surprises, but it's a delight to see a movie which idles away without anything more pressing on its mind than people.
Instead of simply assuming that the old have interesting lives, the film never stops congratulating itself for being daring enough to focus on them. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2/5
Instead of simply assuming that the old have interesting lives, the film never stops congratulating itself for being daring enough to focus on them.
Caryn James
The movie is essentially about the close observation of behavior. Like some of Hemingway's stories, the real action is all implied. The characters trade small talk, and we sense that larger issues are lurking beneath their cheerfulness. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The movie is essentially about the close observation of behavior. Like some of Hemingway's stories, the real action is all implied. The characters trade small talk, and we sense that larger issues are lurking beneath their cheerfulness.
Roger Ebert
An endearing buddy movie for the senior crowd. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
An endearing buddy movie for the senior crowd.
Rita Kempley
Mostly dull but likable senior citizen melodrama. Dec 28, 2015 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
Mostly dull but likable senior citizen melodrama.
Dennis Schwartz
Offers little in the way of narrative drive or plot conflict, and what does happen is far from surprising. MacLaine and Piper Laurie are more or less wasted in supporting roles, and pretty Sandra Bullock is given almost nothing to do. Jun 14, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Offers little in the way of narrative drive or plot conflict, and what does happen is far from surprising. MacLaine and Piper Laurie are more or less wasted in supporting roles, and pretty Sandra Bullock is given almost nothing to do.
This is a film of two superlative performances from Richard Harris and Robert Duvall, who play an odd couple drawn together by their common loneliness as they become friends in the winter of their lives Jul 19, 2008 | Full Review…
This is a film of two superlative performances from Richard Harris and Robert Duvall, who play an odd couple drawn together by their common loneliness as they become friends in the winter of their lives
Urban Cinefile Critics
A deeply moving and wonderfully acted film about loneliness and friendship. This is one to treasure. Oct 5, 2005 | Rating: 5/5
A deeply moving and wonderfully acted film about loneliness and friendship. This is one to treasure.
Chuck O'Leary
A slow-paced and sentimental film, but still a pleasure to watch as the two brilliant and dignified leads play off each other so well. Jul 20, 2004 | Full Review…
A slow-paced and sentimental film, but still a pleasure to watch as the two brilliant and dignified leads play off each other so well.
Film4 Staff
Funny, touching, understated. Melancholy, bittersweet, lovely. Jul 7, 2004
Funny, touching, understated. Melancholy, bittersweet, lovely.
Martin Scribbs
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