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States of Control

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States of Control (1998)

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Reviews Counted: 10

Fresh: 6

Rotten:4

Average Rating: 5.7/10

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Lisa is a Manhattanite who becomes disillusioned with the path her life has taken to this point. A sterile marriage and a dull career make her yearn to break free from her self-imposed and societal chains. Her discoveries about herself are... Lisa is a Manhattanite who becomes disillusioned with the path her life has taken to this point. A sterile marriage and a dull career make her yearn to break free from her self-imposed and societal chains. Her discoveries about herself are shocking and the decisions she makes haunt her as she finds that a new life is more easily wished for than attained. [More]

Starring: Stephen Bogardus, John Cunningham, Ellen Greene, Jennifer Van Dyck

Starring: Stephen Bogardus, John Cunningham, Ellen Greene, Jennifer Van Dyck

Director: Zachary Winestine

Director: Zachary Winestine
Producer: Matt Janes, Priscilla Guastavino, Joanne Pawlowski
Screenwriter: Zachary Winestine

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disquieting treatment of a dissatisfied Manhattan woman

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05/09/06
John A. Nesbit
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The lead performance by Jennifer Van Dyck is hypnotic and devastatingly real and would have earned an Oscar nomination had the film been backed by the kind of money that usually supports such contenders.

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Wade Major
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12/08/04
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A yuppie in a midlife crisis alternates between repression and indulgence in new experiences. Sensual but unsympathetic.

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12/08/02
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Even by low-budget, indie standards, this is an unusually claustrophobic, self-absorbed work whose commercial prospects are bleak.

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An astute, thought-provoking film, but the ending left me just as dissatisfied as Lisa is throughout the movie, in her journey to not follow by the rules of today's superficial society.

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