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On_Line (2002)

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Reviews Counted:39

Fresh:15

Rotten:24

Average Rating:4.6/10

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Set in Manhattan's cybersex industry, "On_Line" at first appears to be about people getting off without ever touching (if you've never done it you'll learn, from one explosively directed sequence,... Set in Manhattan's cybersex industry, "On_Line" at first appears to be about people getting off without ever touching (if you've never done it you'll learn, from one explosively directed sequence, precisely how such a thing might happen). But the film, directed by Jed Weintrob – a digital junkie from the early days of interactive entertainment – has a lot more on its mind than just sex. John Roth (Josh Hamilton) runs a live erotic Website called Intercon-X. Though profitable, the site, which he owns with his roommate Moe (Harold Perrineau), keeps John at home in a state of perpetual frustration. We get the sense that John likes living this way: he works between shots of peppermint schnapps and webcam diary entries in which he pines for his ex-fiancée. Built around revealing and often funny streaming video sessions with net-izens like "man-on-man" host Al Fleming (John Fleck), Internet fantasy girl Jordan Nash (Vanessa Ferlito), self-destructive artist Moira Ingalls (Isabel Gillies) and Ohio innocent Ed Simone (Eric Millegan), "On_Line" uses a groundbreaking mix of new technology and romantic narrative to tell a classic New York story. [More]

Starring: Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau, Vanessa Ferlito, Isabel Gillies

Starring: Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau, Vanessa Ferlito, Isabel Gillies, John Fleck, Eric Millegan, Liz Owens

Director: Jed Weintrob

Director: Jed Weintrob
Screenwriter: Andrew Osborne, Jed Weintrob
Producer: Tanya Selvaratnam, Adam Brightman
Composer: Roger Neill
Studio: Indican Pictures

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
08/09/03
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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Film Threat

Well-crafted late-night sleaze.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
06/28/03
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

A [reasonably] compelling, refreshingly non-judgmental look at the newest phase of one-handed clapping.

Full Review Source: Portland Mercury | comment Comment
01/21/05
Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright
Portland Mercury

Amateurish drivel, which is headed for Skinemax in a hurry.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
10/03/03
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic

A pleasant, small comedy that will have you smiling.

Full Review Source: PopcornQ | comment Comment
07/03/03
Brandon Judell
Brandon Judell
PopcornQ

An engaging, dig-vid portrait of 21st century disaffection that assays, in a manner that feels emotionally correct if not perfectly arranged, the way the Internet binds us.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
06/27/03
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

Although far-fetched at times, On Line gives us likable enough characters and several laugh out loud moments. Director Jed Weintrob has a distinct visual flair.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/08/04
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

A smart, well-made film that treads new ground in the relationship wilderness.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
02/12/03
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

It makes you wonder, is there is a market for soft-porn movies for lonely geeks? Isn't that what computers are for in the first place?

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
06/27/03
C.W. Nevius
C.W. Nevius
San Francisco Chronicle

The movie epitomizes the problems inherent in attempting to depict new (and constantly morphing) media -- the inevitable obsolescence, the intangible particularities that resist or get lost in translation.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
06/24/03
Dennis Lim
Dennis Lim
Village Voice

There's something so familiar and commonplace about this story and its characters -- and maybe that has something to do with how much the Internet is a part of our everyday lives -- it's hard to get particularly thrilled.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
07/11/03
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

What lingers here is great sadness for a lost Atari generation.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
06/26/03
Donald J. Levit
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Doomed by Weintrob's passion for the Web, his passionless characters are little more than manipulated 'bots' -- and audiences, absenting possible hipster appeal, may vote more zeroes than ones for this digital tale.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
07/01/03
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

The same old 'people are lonely' whining, only with new technology.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
09/18/02
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Writer-director Jed Weintrob is so busy trying to make important statements about human relationships in the cyber age that he loses control of his whiny, unlikable characters.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
06/27/03
Erich Scholz
Erich Scholz
Citysearch

A triumph of formula over substance.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
06/27/03
Ernest Hardy
Ernest Hardy
L.A. Weekly

This would-be erotic thriller suffers from the same problem that afflicts so many computer-oriented movies -- namely, that watching characters staring at a screen and typing hardly makes for a thrilling cinematic experience.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
06/27/03
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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A 90-minute hairy-palm horror show, one that will strike terror into the heart of anyone who shares a keyboard with a lonely, Web-crazed roommate.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
08/15/03
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

Take away the computers and DSL lines and it's the 1950s of Jules Feiffer and Mike Nichols and Elaine May all over again, without the shrewdness and bite.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
06/27/03
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday
 
 
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