Everything Moves Alone (2001) User Reviews

great independent film

[shadesi · 13 September 2003]

Scotch (Phil Guerette) is trying to find his own place in the world, while trying to make peace with his eccentric brother Rob (Mike Aransky). Upon arriving in town, Scotch is quickly drawn into the ongoing feud between Anderson (Thomas Edward Seymour) and McDunley (Matt Ford). To say more would spoil it all..... the tagline sums it up the best: Living, Loving, and Stealing Luggage.

It may not be as slick and fancy as Hollywood, but this movie rocks. Anyone can identify with the idiosyncrasies of life - black sheep, long-running feuds, and trying to sense of it all. This movie goes from outrageously funny to poignant without skipping a beat. The fact that it was made with limited time and a limited budget just makes it even better.

You probably won't find this at the video store, but it's well worth the money to order it directly from Hale Manor Productions (and I rarely buy movies). Worth watching again and again. I'll never get tired of it.

one of the great independent movies that is truly an independently made film

[actrmdl1275 · 10/10 · 26 September 2003]

This film was one of the great films I`ve seen in years because it had a real touching storyline inside a landscape of well developed characters.Anyone who has ever grown up in suburban USA can relate to the simplistic yet epic problems that we encounter in everyday life.The friends we make and the family we wish sometimes would just go away, but in the end we realize why we need each other.

Sideways and Garden State get all the respect when this film is just as good!

[bruce-273 · 10/10 · 24 June 2005]

This film really is like Sideways and the Garden State rolled in one. It has the comic timing and strangeness of Garden State but the sincerity of Sideways. The characters are rich and flawed but you know what stinks the most is that this film was finished before either of those films. I saw this film in New York and was happy to discover it. I come to find out that is still hasn't been put out on DVD. The state of Independent film is very strange. It seems that people are so exhausted by routing through all the crappy independent films that they never discover the good ones. The summary of this film is simple. It's a bunch of weird quirky characters in a small town. It's about there connections to each other (There many connections). It's a layered piece of art that one day people will come to respect when these guys break out. I hope you'll seek it out.

Like the Garden State meets a David Mamet flick

[dela5021 · 10/10 · 20 April 2005]

It's like The Garden State meets a David Mamet flick. A great little film about small town folks trying to make sense of it all. I got to see it in NY a few years back and it was a real treat. The New England images are beautiful in a rustic way. I love the look of 16mm film. The whole film is like that, the characters are rich yet flawed just like the medium. This film is probably the last generation of Independent films to be shot on film and in that sense it should be respected. I personally feel happy that I got to see it because I haven't seen it anywhere since NY. These Hale Manor boys have a lot of heart and I hope we see more of them.