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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 22, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose & Lili Taylor | |
Performer: | Adrian Lester & Jessica Hecht | |
Directed by | Andrew Wagner | |
Screenwriting by | Andrew Wagner & Fred Parnes | |
Composition by | Adam Gorgoni | |
Produced by | Gary Winick, Jake Abraham, Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner | |
Director of Photography: | Harlan Bosmajian |
Entertainment Reviews:
[An] intelligent, careful adaptation of a near-perfect novel by Brian Morton....Instead of nostalgia, STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING offers a clear-eyed elegy for the world.
New York Times
3 stars out of 4 -- [A] remarkable film, indelibly marked by Langella's deeply felt portrait of a lion in winter.
Rolling Stone
[A] lovely little gem....An exquisite tale about the way the artistic process becomes every bit a part of the process of life...
Box Office
Rating: B --
Awkward and sometimes overly subtle, but compelling performances by a cast of normally supporting actors who make the most of their much deserved chance to carry a film.
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Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
For all its sturm and drang, there is an elegiac quality about the film, maybe because fewer and fewer people apparently care very much about writing or writers.
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The Tyee (British Columbia)
Rating: 2.5/4 --
What to do with this light, while it lasts? [Director] Wagner's problem is to find an answer to that question and also to offer some resolution to the conflicts of honesty and compromise the movie portrays.
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Toronto Star
Langella gives a performance that is so layered with mourning wit and experience that, for once, an acting-showcase movie lives up to its promise.
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Though he's spent most of his career as a character actor in supporting roles, Frank Langella gives the lead performance of a lifetime in STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING, based on the novel by Brian Morton. Flanked by Lili Taylor and Lauren Ambrose, Langella is the central piece in a film that focuses on its characters. The film begins with aging writer Leonard Schiller (Langella, SUPERMAN RETURNS), a man who feels as obsolete as the typewriter he is pounding away at. Though he has four novels to his credit, he has been working on his fifth for a decade. Enter Heather Wolfe (Ambrose, SIX FEET UNDER), a grad student who plans to write her thesis on Schiller's work. She cajoles the reluctant man into helping her, and they begin a curious friendship. Meanwhile, Schiller's daughter Ariel (Taylor, SIX FEET UNDER) struggles not only with her elderly father, but also with her own desire to have children as she approaches 40. She also grapples with the decision of reconnecting with an ex-boyfriend (Adrian Lester, HUSTLE).
As the fading writer Schiller, Langella doesn't give a bold performance that screams for Oscar's attention. Instead, the actor commands the screen with a quiet presence. Heather's attempts at friendship with Schiller--and eventual seduction--may feel awkward at times within the film, but Ambrose's performance is quite genuine. As always, Taylor is impressive, and it's good to see her get a heftier role. The film's other central character is New York's Upper West Side, a player that should receive top billing. Director Andrew Wagner (THE TALENT GIVEN US) allows the neighborhood to play a central role within his engaging film.
As the fading writer Schiller, Langella doesn't give a bold performance that screams for Oscar's attention. Instead, the actor commands the screen with a quiet presence. Heather's attempts at friendship with Schiller--and eventual seduction--may feel awkward at times within the film, but Ambrose's performance is quite genuine. As always, Taylor is impressive, and it's good to see her get a heftier role. The film's other central character is New York's Upper West Side, a player that should receive top billing. Director Andrew Wagner (THE TALENT GIVEN US) allows the neighborhood to play a central role within his engaging film.
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