Overloaded with extra characters, tangled story lines, dance numbers, fantasies and flashbacks.
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04/16/01
The Visit (2000)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:22
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: An earnest drama, The Visit gains much emotional power through its fine performances.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: With THE VISIT, director Jordan Walker Pearlman makes his feature film debut, adapting a story from a book of the same title written by Kosmond Russell. The movie stars Hill Harper as a young man... [More]
Starring: Hill Harper, Obba Babatunde, Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams
Director: Jordan Walker Pearlman
Reviews for The Visit
There are some good performances and the material speaks to some powerful issues.
04/16/01
The effect of watching people grapple with emotional difficulty and trying to communicate with one another proves riveting.
04/09/01
Top CriticExceptional performances from a well-worn cast transforms The Visit into a remarkable healing process, using the medicine of family and faith to heal a tortured soul.
03/19/01
A prime example of a movie that has clearly been agonized over and loved, but to virtually no ultimate effect.
02/01/01
The acting carries the scenes and Walker-Pearlman's dialogue and screenplay make for an auspicious debut
02/01/01
Walker-Pearlman makes a striking first entry into feature films.
02/01/01
Some of the fantasy sequences play like a Hallmark Hall of Fame production, as does the overly sentimental ending.
02/01/01
The acting is magnificent across the board.
02/01/01
If you are open to a leisurely paced psychological drama which enters the mind of a very unhappy fellow, you might gain the same satisfactions as I.
01/31/01
Sometimes we are surprised by the forces that serve as a catalyst for our deepening. . . . a profoundly simple and moving film.
01/01/00
Ultimately, this is a story not just about the forgiveness of others but also about the forgiveness of oneself.
01/01/00
The drama is very powerful, with layers of complexity seldom seen in this subject matter. In that regard, it puts "The Shawshank Redemption" to shame.
01/01/00
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