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A Home at the End of the World (2004)

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Reviews Counted:109

Fresh:53

Rotten:56

Average Rating:5.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Bobby and Jonathan have been inseparable since they were teenagers in suburban Ohio. Bobby has suffered many losses for someone so young, and is starved for love and affection. Awkward teen... Bobby and Jonathan have been inseparable since they were teenagers in suburban Ohio. Bobby has suffered many losses for someone so young, and is starved for love and affection. Awkward teen Jonathan has a nice family, and a particularly wonderful mother (Sissy Spacek). The boys not only become as close as brothers, but they also experiment sexually. The two lose touch, but find each other again in their mid-20s in the early 1980s, when Bobby (Colin Farrell) moves to New York and joins Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) at the apartment he shares with Clare (Robin Wright Penn), an aging hippie. Bobby and Clare become lovers, however, Clare had planned to have a child with Jonathan, who is now openly gay and who is still interested in Bobby, and to whom Clare used to be attracted. The trio becomes its own unique entity, questioning the traditional definitions of family and love, and dealing with the complications of their love triangle. Based on the novel of the same name by Michael Cunningham, who also wrote the screenplay and who was the recipient of the Pulitzer prize, this film marks the debut of director Michael Mayer. Erik Smith plays Bobby as a teenager, and Harris Allen plays the teenage Jonathan. [More]

Starring: Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek

Starring: Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek

Director: Michael Mayer

Director: Michael Mayer
Screenwriter: Michael Cunningham
Producer: Tom Hulce, John Hart, Pamela Koffler, Hunt Lowry, Katie Roumel, Jeff Sharp, Christine Vachon, John Wells
Composer: Duncan Sheik
Studio: Warner Bros.

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This script seems like a condensed-books version of a story that probably makes more sense in print form.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
08/07/04
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

Casting is everything in a film like this, and in the major roles, Mayer scores two out of three.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
08/07/04
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine

The film equivalent of the blind date described as 'really nice.' It's neither bad nor good, just sort of earnest and well-meaning.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
08/06/04
Karen Karbo
Karen Karbo
Oregonian

By the end of the film, you may get the sense that these are good actors still in search of good, fully formed characters.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
08/06/04
Sam Sessa
Sam Sessa
Kansas City Star

The only thing to look forward to in At Home at the End of the World is The End

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
08/06/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
N/R

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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
08/06/04
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Although the actors do a magnificent job with the piffle, the characters hardly ever act the way real people do in the situations they are presented with. They act, instead, the way characters in a movie act.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
08/06/04
Richard Nilsen
Richard Nilsen
Arizona Republic

A narrative-heavy but performance- driven work that rarely achieves the poetry of the longing that it explores.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
08/05/04
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Wonderful performances, dead-on casting and a touching story make up for the shortfalls of a condensed and awkward script.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
08/05/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

I never believed a minute of the story. And I never cared.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
08/02/04
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

A sprightly but shallow tale of a defiantly untraditional family...but the pleasures of the picture largely make up for the affectation.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
08/01/04
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

What keeps the movie going, far longer than the screenplay deserves, are fine performances all around.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
07/30/04
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

An adaptation of another Cunningham book that, like The Hours, comes with its own set of challenges, which director Michael Mayer handles forthrightly, with precise emotional pitch.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
07/30/04
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

Sincere, heartfelt and mostly hopeless, A Home At The End Of The World is a well-intentioned wetnap of a movie about the re-configured post-nuclear family.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
07/30/04
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star

Never less than watchable and often quite moving, especially when Colin Farrell (as Bobby) or Sissy Spacek (Alice) are on screen.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
07/30/04
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times

There are Vermont maple farms that have less sap.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
07/30/04
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

This debacle takes Farrell, one of the screen's most charismatic young stars, and systematically drains him of the wary intelligence, Irish wit and wired energy that make him interesting.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
07/30/04
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

It may be earnest but it is rarely convincing and never engaging.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
07/30/04
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

Doesn't quite satisfy -- it all seems too simple, too glowing -- but it tries, and that's something. Not quite enough, but something.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
07/30/04
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

Roberts, Farrell, and Penn don't appear to be in the least bit self-consumed; you really believe they're thinking about each other.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
07/30/04
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
 
 
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