Chicago – The newest Adam Sandler film that doesn’t feature him dressed like a chubby middle schooler is really bad, but in a special way. Similarly, it is an instant classic in the legacy of bizarre disasters, a footnote in writer/director history that must be witnessed to be fully understood.
Part of its perplexity is how the film is always in grasp as it shows itself, and how you can reach out and try to bring it back home, but then it explodes. This is one of those films where its flaws are more believable as a conspiracy than a misjudgment. Someone, please, let the police know that writer/director Tom McCarthy is missing, and someone has his shoes.
Rating: 1.0/5.0
The key to entering “The Cobbler” is indeed not lead star Adam Sandler but co-writer/director McCarthy. If you’ve seen his films like “The Station Agent,” “The Visitor,...
Part of its perplexity is how the film is always in grasp as it shows itself, and how you can reach out and try to bring it back home, but then it explodes. This is one of those films where its flaws are more believable as a conspiracy than a misjudgment. Someone, please, let the police know that writer/director Tom McCarthy is missing, and someone has his shoes.
Rating: 1.0/5.0
The key to entering “The Cobbler” is indeed not lead star Adam Sandler but co-writer/director McCarthy. If you’ve seen his films like “The Station Agent,” “The Visitor,...
- 3/14/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
What it's about: A man is released from prison in Quebec and is not accepted in his own family. He goes to New York City to sell Christmas trees with the man who has usurped his family life. About the filmmaker: I grew up in North Carolina and moved to NY to go to college in 1985. I made the movie "Junebug," which came out in 2005. What else do you want audiences to know? It stars Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins, and Amy Landecker. It was written by Melissa James Gibson. The producers were Luca Borghese Daniel Carey, Elizabeth Giamatti, Mike Hogan, Sidney Kimmel, Louise Lovegrove, John Penotti, and Jim Tauber. The Dp was Mott Hupfel. It was edited by Jeff Buchanan. The Production Designer was Mary Frederickson. Costumes were by Ciera Wells. The score is by Graham Reynolds. What do you have in the works? Nothing in the works.
- 4/17/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Chicago – There are few character actors in the history of cinema more mesmerizing and fearless than Philip Seymour Hoffman. He’s created some of the most memorable characters ever to grace the screen: from the sexually arrested Allen in “Happiness” and the obsessed playwright Caden Cotard in “Synecdoche, New York” to the electrifying title role in “Capote.”
His brilliant acting career obviously caused the excitement surrounding his feature filmmaking debut to be more than mildly palpable. Yet “Jack Goes Boating” is an unexpectedly benign morsel, with bittersweet tones reminiscent of Jeff Garlin’s equally “Marty”-like, “I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.” Hoffman’s sweet, shy, schlubby-looking protagonist sports a nearly childlike naïveté that’s as lovable as it is disconcerting.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
Based on Bob Glaudini’s play of the same name, the film centers on the hesitant romance that begins to blossom between two lost souls in New York City.
His brilliant acting career obviously caused the excitement surrounding his feature filmmaking debut to be more than mildly palpable. Yet “Jack Goes Boating” is an unexpectedly benign morsel, with bittersweet tones reminiscent of Jeff Garlin’s equally “Marty”-like, “I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.” Hoffman’s sweet, shy, schlubby-looking protagonist sports a nearly childlike naïveté that’s as lovable as it is disconcerting.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
Based on Bob Glaudini’s play of the same name, the film centers on the hesitant romance that begins to blossom between two lost souls in New York City.
- 1/21/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
One of the best films of 2011 that's not getting much love during this awards season (outside of the Independent Spirit Awards, which bestowed three nominations upon it) is Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating (out this week from Anchor Bay Entertainment). And while Mott Hupfel's gorgeous cinematography -- which turns wintry New York City into a gleaming bauble -- looks great on Blu-Ray, the DVD itself comes up a little short in the special features department.
- 1/19/2011
- Movieline
Why is Jack always going boating? I have no idea but Philip Seymour Hoffman might. His latest movie "Jack Goes Boating" is about a guy who goes boating. All The Freaking Time. I'm kidding, I actually don't know what it's about and I haven't read the synopsis yet, so let's all discover this new movie's plot together, shall we?Jack Goes Boating is a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. The film stars John Ortiz (American Gangster), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Broadway’s “Rent”), Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote), with Hoffman making his feature directorial debut. Bob Glaudini (“A View From 151st Street”) adapted his acclaimed Off Broadway play for the screen. Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Connie (Amy Ryan) are two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city,...
- 7/9/2010
- LRMonline.com
Hoffman meets all first-time filmmaker expectations with wonderful 'Jack Goes Boating' The best complement one can say about the working-class romance "Jack Goes Boating" is that Phillip Seymour Hoffman's directing debut is a worthy match to his acclaimed acting career. Smart, realistic and surprisingly sweet natured, "Jack Goes Boating" is the perfect cinematic response to the 2007 stage play starring Hoffman, John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega at New York's LAByrinth theater collective. What I mean by perfect is that "Jack Goes Boating" wonderfully captures playwright and screenwriter Bob Glaudini's story of average New Yorkers struggling to find love and happiness in their workaday lives. Hoffman, Ortiz and Rubin-Vega know their characters well and bring them to life via easygoing, full-fledged performances. Working with cameraman Mott Hupfel ("The Savages"), Hoffman brings cinematic pizzazz to the storytelling via artistic flourishes (especially in the scenes where Jack learns to swim...
- 2/9/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Hoffman meets all first-time filmmaker expectations with wonderful 'Jack Goes Boating' The best complement one can say about the working-class romance "Jack Goes Boating" is that Phillip Seymour Hoffman's directing debut is a worthy match to his acclaimed acting career. Smart, realistic and surprisingly sweet natured, "Jack Goes Boating" is the perfect cinematic response to the 2007 stage play starring Hoffman, John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega at New York's LAByrinth theater collective. What I mean by perfect is that "Jack Goes Boating" wonderfully captures playwright and screenwriter Bob Glaudini's story of average New Yorkers struggling to find love and happiness in their workaday lives. Hoffman, Ortiz and Rubin-Vega know their characters well and bring them to life via easygoing, full-fledged performances. Working with cameraman Mott Hupfel ("The Savages"), Hoffman brings cinematic pizzazz to the storytelling via artistic flourishes (especially in the scenes where Jack learns to swim...
- 2/9/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Say what you will about Cory McAbee. The guy’s got the market cornered on sci-fi/western/musical/comedies with a heart. He’s currently making the rounds on the festival circuit with his latest offering, ‘Stingray Sam,’ of which you can read my review right here. While maybe not as polished, not as heartfelt, and with songs that aren’t quite as catchy, McAbee’s first feature film, ‘The American Astronaut,’ is still light years better than most big-budget offerings studios give us today. It’s the type of film that cries out “cult classic,” and it lives up to that moniker in every aspect imaginable.
McAbee stars as Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader in an alternate history where every planet in our solar system, and most of the moons, are inhabitable. Curtis finds himself in an asteroid saloon where he is delivering a cat. In exchange for the cat,...
McAbee stars as Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader in an alternate history where every planet in our solar system, and most of the moons, are inhabitable. Curtis finds himself in an asteroid saloon where he is delivering a cat. In exchange for the cat,...
- 8/10/2009
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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