
When her brother Bobby returns from World War II mentally damaged, Anna must deal with her parents, who don't acknowledge her brother's existence once he's admitted to a mental hospital. After his sudden death Anna begins to question her own sanity. Her gangster boyfriend Billy's action pushes her further until she is convinced that the only way she can be "cured" is to have a lobotomy.... (Full plot summary below)
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When her brother Bobby returns from World War II mentally damaged, Anna must deal with her parents, who don't acknowledge her brother's existence once he's admitted to a mental hospital. After his sudden death Anna begins to question her own sanity. Her gangster boyfriend Billy's action pushes her further until she is convinced that the only way she can be "cured" is to have a lobotomy.
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| All Movie GuideJosh Ralske...from the opening titles, with their jangling ice-pick imagery, the film builds an appropriate sense of needling uneasiness... |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsDirector-writer Richard Ledes shows better command of 1950s period atmosphere than he does of either his subject or his cast. |
| Los Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoThe anesthetized, deadpan performances -- except for Meat Loaf as Anna's gangster boyfriend, who's so over-the-top it appears he stumbled in from another movie -- and dull storytelling result in an unsuccessful mix of screwball comedy, melodrama and noir. |
| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy KleinInteresting but, in the long run, aimless. |
| User ReviewTracy B[font=Century Gothic]"A Hole in One" takes place in 1953 in the small hamlet of Ice Town where Anna(Michelle Williams) fears she is losing her mind after witnessing the murder of a friend by her mobster boyfriend(Meat Loaf Aday). She feels that a lobotomy will solve her problems, as demonstrated by Dr. Ashton(Bill Raymond) as part of the local Mental Health Week. As shown, the Trans-Orbital Lobotomy is a simple procedure performed with an ice pick...[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"A Hole in One" is a victory of design over any kind of coherence. There are at least three or four separate elements to this movie that never come together. The most interesting of which are the mental health issues and lobotomy but that is definitely from a historical perspective. And the movie misses a valuable opportunity to link the infamous procedure to the conformity of the 1950's.[/font] |