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06/24/06
Winter Solstice (2005)
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Reviews Counted:78
Fresh:48
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: A deliberately paced, realistic portrait of a family's grief and healing.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this solemn family film about three men sharing a broken household, Jim (Anthony LaPaglia) stars as a father just trying to keep it all together. His sons Pete and Gabe (Mark Webber and Aaron... [More]
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Aaron Stanford, Mark Webber, Allison Janney
Director: Josh Sternfeld
Reviews for Winter Solstice
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04/29/09
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08/16/07
Audiences may not get too excited about devastated people who conduct their social lives at the local Dairy Queen.
03/01/07
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01/17/06
Top CriticWinter Solstice is an intense drama and all the action is internal. LaPaglia is such a fine actor and every nuance of his bottled up Jim comes through, as he struggles to not only be a good father, but to find a direction in his own life.
11/18/05
Winter Solstice thrives solely on how much understatement you can actually handle in a movie.
10/20/05
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10/01/05
...a gem...
09/30/05
Something that's increasingly rare: a stringently subtextual drama....when they finally arrive, the epiphanies are small ones.
09/12/05
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07/21/05
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07/05/05
Top CriticSolstice offers solace. It is quiet, understated and powerful as a single chapter in several changing lives.
06/10/05
Sternfeld started with well-conceived characters and simply didn't succeed in making them flesh. These people have traits instead of personalities; goals instead of dreams.
06/08/05
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05/14/05
Top CriticUltimately undercut by its fictional elements and its flat characters.
05/13/05
To read between the lines in Winter Solstice, you better bring a magnifying glass.
05/12/05
Such a low-key drama that I'm not sure anything happens in it at all.
05/10/05
This movie deserves to be seen -- and learned from. It captures the moments in which each of us stares out across an emptiness, searching for a connection that will keep us from falling.
05/06/05
Give Winter Solstice some credit for taking an unexpected route.
05/06/05
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