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Downloading Nancy

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Downloading Nancy (2008)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:5

Rotten:23

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: Unseemly, unsettling, and unremittingly bleak, Downloading Nancy is slickly made but mostly unpleasant.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. It is a lie. After waiting several days, Albert realizes... When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. It is a lie.

After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Louis's life, like Nancy's, has become a twisted quest for redemption via smutty chat rooms and alternative websites. Both wounded and alone, Nancy and Louis take comfort in one another through email, pictures and promises.

With Louis, Nancy goes to a different place, one of liberation and fulfillment. It¹s a location where pain is pleasure and where the end is the beginning. While she pursues the freedom that she feels will only come with ultimate liberation, Albert is left to put the pieces together and try to salvage what is left.--© Official Site [More]

Starring: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman

Starring: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman, Michael Nyqvist

Director: Johan Renck

Director: Johan Renck
Screenwriter: Pamela Cuming, Lee H. Ross
Producer: David Moore, Igor Kovacevich, Jason Essex, Cole Payne
Composer: Krister Linder
Studio: Strand Releasing

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Tortuous, painful, confusing, contrived. It's enough to put the viewer on the couch.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
11/26/09
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

Bello throws herself into Nancy admirably. Yet the film squanders her talents, and what's left of our patience, en route to a finale that is neither surprising nor illuminating: Like the rest of the movie, it's misery for misery's sake.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
08/08/09
Rossiter Drake
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner

You can't really blame Bello for taking every chance available to let her monster talent off its chain, even when the opportunity takes the form of something so ill conceived and unworthy (and dull and ridiculous) as Downloading Nancy.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
07/10/09
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

A film that may be too heavy for its own good. Christopher Doyle fans will love it while tolerating the harshness of the story.

Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
06/10/09
Ron Wilkinson
Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

Director Johan Renck essentially builds Nancy and Albert's reality out of an aggregation of overwrought kitsch... and so what seem like occasional lapses into deadpan moments of fantasy aren't always productive in contrast. Heavily art directed for unplea

Full Review Source: SpoutBlog | comment Comment
06/09/09
Karina Longworth
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog

Boasts a raw, brave performance by Maria Bello and a stylish cinematography, but suffers from too much style over substance. Its dull, stilted screenplay has poorly developed characters and lacks any real suspense.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
06/09/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

Maria Bello and Jason Patric in a world of pain.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
06/08/09
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
MTV

An amazing example of talented actors doing their best to make something genuine of a complex concept but being betrayed by writers and a director who seem afraid to really let the film connect.

Full Review Source: Movie Retriever | comment Comment
06/06/09
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
Movie Retriever

Some suspense arises about just how far the woman's sickness will take her, but it's overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the story.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
06/05/09
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

Maria Bello’s courageous performance should find critical admiration but will not be enough for this spare and difficult drama to find much of an audience in its limited theatrical runs.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/09
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Boxoffice Magazine

Downloading Nancy is a nasty exploitation flick tarted up with art-house actors and psychobabble.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
06/05/09
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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A chilly, bleak film about characters so programmatic that their plight is easy to shrug off.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
06/04/09
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

creates a deadening sense of ennui not through empathy or lived-in performances, but tedium.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
06/04/09
Jesse Hassenger
Jesse Hassenger
Filmcritic.com

For all the bad behavior on display, the emotional stakes remain hazily defined.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
06/03/09
Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee
Time Out New York

What makes the movie a trial to sit through isn't just the heroine's pain-freak tastes. It's that a kinkfest with this blah an emotional spectrum is selling its own chic form of puritanism -- sex with all the life force repressed.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
06/03/09
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

A tawdry tale which suggests that in the Internet Age, if you're contemplating suicide but can't quite summon up the nerve to do yourself in, you might surf S&M chat rooms to find a sadist whose fetish corresponds with your masochistic tendencies.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
06/03/09
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

Not only does it waste the audience’s time with 102 minutes of misery and despair, but it also trashes the talents of four fine actors who should have stayed in bed reading better screenplays that deserve attention and enhance careers.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
06/03/09
Rex Reed
Rex Reed
New York Observer

When you peel away this film's complex performances, at the core of its drawn-out suicide spectacle is pain so extreme, so alienating, and, in the end, so pointless.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
06/03/09
Elena Oumano
Elena Oumano
Village Voice

More downer than downloading, in search of an online kinky rendezvous with the grim reaper. Which is apparently just a mouse click away in chatrooms these days, who knew. Adventures in self-mutilation, and sexing up assisted suicide in cyberspace.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
06/01/09
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

Bello's performance is both naked and nuanced...An eerie, sometimes vague film in which the hidden emotions break through like sudden geysers of flame, searing all involved.

Full Review Source: Hollywood & Fine | comment Comment
06/01/09
Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine
Hollywood & Fine
 
 
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