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Come Early Morning (2006)
84 %
Reviews Counted: 45 Fresh: 38 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Consensus:
A quiet but moving film anchored by the unexpected depth of Ashley Judd's performance.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Synopsis: For her directorial debut, Joey Lauren Adams (CHASING AMY) offers this humble, small-town character study of Lucy (Ashley Judd), a 30-something Arkansas woman who, though a contractor by day, hits the bars--and often the bedrooms of strange men--after dark. Though hardworking and... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Wilson
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With an honest and starkly minimalist approach, Adams paints a vivid, often painful portrait of a woman who has nothing to look forward to except the next one-night stand.
07/10/07
What Come Early Morning does is create an utterly convincing central character, and surround her with a milieu and backstory that is sincere and convincing.
03/01/07
The best thing about Adams' film is its unhurried, casual naturalism.
01/18/07
The writing and directing by Joey Lauren Adams express an admirable naturalness and eschews rose-tinted solutions.
12/29/06
...nothing less than a minor key wonder of a film, a character study of novelistic complexity with a sure sense of place and purpose that seems akin to movies made before Hollywood discovered its corporate destiny.
12/17/06
Subdued and deliberate, but also sensitive and quietly moving. And it gives Judd a chance to shine as a real actress again.
12/01/06
If and when Come Early Morning ever resurfaces on DVD, order it immediately—and while you’re at it, order Chasing Amy too, if you haven’t already seen it, and enjoy a dandy double feature with two country girls of enormous talent.
11/22/06
This is a quietly powerful film about small-town Southern living that avoids all the usual clichés and makes us feel as if we’re dropping in on real lives in mid-stream.
11/20/06
In fact this film is generally about nothing. There's an attempt to show some growth in some relationships, but there really isn't any and we're left where we started.
11/18/06
The baby-voiced costar of Chasing Amy proves an effortless filmmaker, turning Lucy’s journey into the awakening of a soul.
11/15/06
It's a Southern story, but not cloying in the way that many Hollywood versions of the rustic South are.
11/13/06
In Come Early Morning, Ashley Judd delivers her most natural screen performance since Ruby in Paradise, the film that pushed her toward stardom in 1993.
11/13/06
Top Critic
The film has a worn, live-in feel, and its unhurried narrative captures the subtle rhythms of small-town life. Nothing much happens on the surface, but worlds of hope, hurt and determination lie right behind the characters' eyes, waiting to be discovered.
11/10/06
In a way, the movie itself is an example of that philosophy put into practice. [Director] Adams clearly did a lot of soul-searching as she wrote the story. Her introspective script provides another actress with a great role and a new start.
11/10/06
Beautifully photographed by Tim Orr, Come Early Morning is the kind of small gem that's becoming increasingly rare in American films.
11/10/06
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