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06/30/08
A Slipping Down Life (2004)
26 %
Reviews Counted: 65 Fresh: 17 Rotten:48 Average Rating: 4.7/10
Consensus:
Lili Talyor is the best thing in this uninvolving and unconvincing drama.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Anne Tyler, "A Slipping Down Life" is the story of the peculiar courtship of an awkward young woman and a charismatic singer/songwriter, and the profound effect that their unlikely relationship has on each other's lives and futures. Evie Decker (Lili Taylor) is a... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Guy Pearce, Lili Taylor, Sara Rue, John Hawkes, Tom Bower
Reviews
If not entirely successful, at least ambitious and, for a long while, even brave.
03/14/05
The predictable plot lurches forward elliptically, and it's difficult to sustain interest in it.
08/08/04
A Slipping Down Life has been sitting on the shelf since 1999, and it's not hard to see why.
06/18/04
There's probably not much of an audience for a turgid drama whose monotonous tempo rarely fluctuates from one scene to the next.
06/16/04
An underwhelming misfire of muddled tone and equally unclear emotion.
06/12/04
It's interesting, not fascinating, intriguing, not electrifying. But for those in the mood for an offbeat pleasure, A Slipping Down Life may well satisfy.
06/04/04
What's slipping here isn't so much life as judgment on the part of Taylor and Pearce, two splendid actors marooned on bad-script island where nothing really works.
05/29/04
There is no way for a love story to work when we don't believe the lovers belong together.
05/28/04
A morose and unconvincing drama about desperate love in a small North Carolina town.
05/28/04
Independent films like to equate smallness with authenticity, but sometimes, unfortunately, they're just small.
05/28/04
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