While Deschanel is the reason to see Winter Passing, her support is nearly impeccable in keeping it from being a one-woman show.
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09/17/07
Winter Passing (2006)
41 %
Reviews Counted: 51 Fresh: 21 Rotten:30 Average Rating: 5.4/10
Consensus:
This dour coming-of-age story has nothing to distinguish it from similarly themed indie fare.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis: Adam Rapp makes his impressive feature film directorial debut with WINTER PASSING, an intimate, often bleak, but ultimately hopeful film about the importance of family, however dysfunctional. Zooey Deschanel carries the movie as Reese Holdin, a sullen, depressed, self-mutilating... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Amy Madigan, Rachel Dratch, Amelia Warner
Reviews
A cold, hard work inhabited by tortured or incidental characters who embody an interior journey that is neither entertaining nor cathartic.
03/01/07
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01/11/07
Performances keep the film afloat and focused whenever it threatens to drift.
04/07/06
Unfortunately, this too-dour film can't decide whether it wants to be a comedy or a drama. As a result, it doesn't really work as either.
03/31/06
The comic moments fall flat while the serious stuff often is unintentionally funny.
03/31/06
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03/25/06
What's real and true about Winter Passing is the relationship between Don and Reese, the father and daughter who wear their damaged dynamic on their sleeves for all to see.
03/16/06
Midway through, Rapp loses momentum, failing to hone in on just what kind of movie he wants to make, and Winter Passing languishes in that no-man's land between tiny, meandering, indie drama and plotted, pointed family melodrama.
03/11/06
Winter Passing's quirky elements and light comedic touches fail to save it from its dark and lumbering premise.
03/11/06
This flawed drama about a self-destructive young actress and her reclusive novelist father has its rewards, mainly in some good performances.
03/10/06
[Adam] Rapp's screenplay doesn't have much sympathy for its characters.
03/10/06
[Zooey] Deschanel carries the heavy and sometimes uneven Winter Passing, which possesses not only a love of language but a moving adoration for the language of love.
03/10/06
There are intriguing actors and ideas here, but only occasionally do they combine with convincing force.
03/10/06
...a finding-yourself drama that gets lost in unnecessary character quirks.
03/10/06
There isn't a spark in the familiar emotional situation or a reason to care how these amiably bland characters end up.
03/09/06
This is the kind of movie routinely dismissed as too slow and quiet by those who don't know it is more exciting to listen than to hear.
03/09/06
Top Critic
It's a disturbing movie, particularly the first half, and one not easily digested.
03/09/06
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