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05/06/06
Loggerheads (2005)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:32
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Loggerheads is an understated, quietly moving character study, bolstered by great performances.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Shot on location in director Tim Kirkman's home state of North Carolina, LOGGERHEADS is a moving, meditative exploration of love and family, told through three interconnected tales. Mark (Kip... [More]
Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Tess Harper, Mike Kelly, Michael Learned
Director: Tim Kirkman, "Savage" Steve Holland
Reviews for Loggerheads
In the end, for all its good intentions, Loggerheads is so slow and earnest that it's hard for the viewer not to lose patience.
10/21/05
Loggerheads is full of compassion and good intentions, but (director Tim) Kirkman never spins the stories into compelling cinema.
10/27/05
... if you can shake out some of the chafing bits of sand that weigh down Loggerheads, you’ll find a heartfelt story about people coming to terms with irrevocable loss.
01/15/06
Sincere, affecting and simple in its direct emotional appeal if not in the overlapping chronologies of its three narratives...
10/21/05
This quiet community and family drama set on the North Carolina shore offers a bighearted outlook on how to absorb change and defeat.
12/09/05
Slow, unadorned, compassionate, and earnest, Loggerheads is a low-fi throwback to the independent films of the 1980s and '90s -- heartland miniatures hewn from plainspoken lives.
12/02/05
You're in deep.
12/15/05
The stories unfold at about the speed of a turtle slowing crawling across the sand, but eventually you get the whole picture and it becomes a moving story of love and redemption.
12/14/05
Loggerheads is not a movie where the emotions are tidy and the messages are clear.
10/21/05
Top CriticA chamber piece of subtle touches, finely acted, the movie has time jumps that are a little confusing.
12/09/05
The movie could have benefited from a lighter touch ...
01/26/06
The rare spirit of character-driven, independent American movies lives on in writer-director Tim Kirkman's beautifully acted, structurally sophisticated heart-tugger.
10/14/05
A touching and savory Southern ensemble drama.
10/19/05
Not only is the film distinguished by its very fine performances and lovely detail work but also by its fascinating timeline of events.
10/12/05
Unexpectedly resonant.
10/11/05
The film is very smart in recognizing that being gay is about a lot more than whom you sleep with.
12/28/05
Quietly involving, albeit uneven.
09/24/05
Top CriticFreshness aside, Loggerheads is beautifully performed (especially by Hunt and Harper), and the script is finely attuned to the nuances of communication that has nothing to do with words.
11/03/05
If it isn't easy being any of the troubled people wandering through the film, Loggerheads makes it easy not only to believe in them, but to care about them as well.
10/14/05
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