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Dominican Rep. Starting Out in the Evening
- Original title
- Starting Out in the Evening
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 111 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Frank Langella
Lili Taylor
Lauren Ambrose
Adrian Lester
Jessica Hecht- Karl Bury
- Michael Cumpsty
- Anitha Gandhi
- Sean T. Krishnan
- Jeff McCarthy
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella) lives in a state of suspended animation. Despite his status as a highly respected writer and professor, Leonard’s books are now out of print and his latest “work-in-progress” sits in the typewriter, languishing. Deeply affected by the death of his wife of many years, he maintains a studied and habit-bound existence, invigorated primarily by his close relationship with his daughter, Ariel (Lili Taylor), who is nearing forty.
Into the warm but slightly stagnant cocoon that is Leonard’s life breezes Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose), a twentysomething graduate student who has made the restoration of Leonard’s reputation the focus of her master’s thesis. Leonard’s unwillingness to co-operate soon gives way to a modicum of carefully calibrated contact, and as their relationship – professional and personal – develops, it becomes a slight hiccup in his daily routines with his daughter. The timing is off: Ariel needs to lean on her father now because she desperately wants children and she loves a man who does not.-
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- Awards
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2008: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Nominated for Best Actor (Frank Langella)2007: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Actor (Frank Langella)2007: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actor (Frank Langella)2007: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Actor (Langella) & Best Screenplay2007: Sundance Film Festival: nominated to Grand Jury Prize - Best Picture U.S..2007: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Actor.
- Critics' reviews
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"Intelligent, involving and conspicuously adult, Starting Out in the Evening is almost shocking in its distinctiveness, its ability to create high drama from an unlikely source."
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"Succeeds so beautifully because of a compelling story, great acting, intelligent writing and sensitive direction."
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"A story involving four civilized people who are only trying, each in a different way, to find happiness."
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"A rapturous, ruefully funny flight of sympathetic imagination. Featuring the first movie role for Frank Langella that ranks with his best stage parts, it's a rare kind of American movie."
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"Andrew Wagner has made a lovely comedy of death and rebirth."
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