In Bonneville, a talented cast is wasted, falling victim to a tired, cliche-ridden story.
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02/28/08
Bonneville (2006)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:16
Rotten:25
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: The amazing cast of Bonneville is paired up with a basic, predictable script and lackluster direction.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Writer-director Christopher N Rowley makes a strong directorial debut with BONNEVILLE, a different kind of road movie. After her adventurer husband, Joe, suddenly dies while they are in Borneo, a... [More]
Starring: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Christine Baranski
Director: Christopher N Rowley
Reviews for Bonneville
The '66 Bonneville was a great car, but these talented ladies deserved a better vehicle.
02/29/08
Clearly, this fatiguing femme drama is Lifetime, Oxygen or straight-to-DVD grade level. To put it in theatres is a gross overreach.
05/12/08
... to see all that potential wasted on what's little more than a washed-out, milquetoast road trip comedy for the soon-to-be senior set is just a travesty.
04/12/08
A tragic waste of time and talent in every sense of the word.
02/26/08
Unfortunately, it's as flimsy as tissue, and the actresses, all 50+, really do more with the material...than it deserves.
08/29/08
It's the three leads who really make this material work. Lange is very sympathetic and relatable as Arvilla, while Bates injects some needed humor. And Allen is pitch-perfect as usual, as the film's moral center of sorts.
02/29/08
Yes, the film deals with women of an age who are usually ignored in film, and it further deals with questions of mortality and loss, which are equally overlooked. The problem is, it doesn't deal with them very well.
02/29/08
Bonneville gets by - barely - on the strength of its three leading ladies.
06/28/08
The actresses make certain you understand their motivations and quirks. It helps Bonneville step away from Lifetime Television treacle into something palatable. Perhaps even charming.
02/28/08
It took brass hubcaps to make Bonneville, a midlife-chick-road-trip movie starring a '66 Pontiac convertible and a trio of middle-aged driving girlfriends in cool sunglasses, and not once have the gals give props to Thelma & Louise.
02/28/08
Bonneville insults its talented leads by casting them in parts they could have--and probably have--done in their sleep.
02/28/08
Bonneville is so bland and predictable, it literally takes two Oscar-winners and a multiple nominee to give it any real entertainment value.
02/29/08
... sticks to a soothingly familiar itinerary, providing a welcome showcase for Jessica Lang, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen. As expected, they prove mighty good company along the way %u2014 which is fortunate, because there's nothing much else that qualifies
02/29/08
Bonneville is scarcely original and in no way earthshaking, but its notable cast is a pleasure to behold.
05/30/08
Top CriticPatronizing an underserved audience with this kind of half-baked fare is a cinematic crime not easily forgiven.
03/21/08
The characters, situations and resolutions all are predictable and fit like a warm, stretched-out sweater with holes in the elbows.
04/25/08
The story just doesn't do enough to pull the heartstrings.
08/31/08
There's no avoiding the fact that Christopher Rowley's feature debut is as uninspired and predictable as your average Lifetime movie.
02/29/08
Open the big cinema floodgates and Bonneville is just a trickle of Poland Spring, but the trio of ladies are always watchable.
02/27/08
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