
Robert Longfellow is a playwright whose latest play in New York City has just bombed while his marriage is in no better shape. Seeking an escape, he travels back to Los Angeles to visit his mother, meet a dear secret girlfriend and decide on new writing opportunities. However, everything changes when his brutish childhood neighbor, Gus, takes Robert hostage with the police surrounding the house. In this situation, the strained conversations inside drift to Robert's profession... (Full plot summary below)
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Robert Longfellow is a playwright whose latest play in New York City has just bombed while his marriage is in no better shape. Seeking an escape, he travels back to Los Angeles to visit his mother, meet a dear secret girlfriend and decide on new writing opportunities. However, everything changes when his brutish childhood neighbor, Gus, takes Robert hostage with the police surrounding the house. In this situation, the strained conversations inside drift to Robert's profession and the nature of creative writing. To placate Gus, Robert introduces him to improvisational dialogue and the pair engage in some dramatic exercises. However as they perform, the material becomes more personal as the trapped pair confront each other with hard truths that will leave neither of them unscathed.
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| MovielineMichelle OrangeThe writing is relaxed in the right places and heightened to a largely effective degree when it counts. |
| Montreal GazetteT'Cha DunlevyWorking with modest means, Donovan has created an intriguing chamber film very much in line with the idiosyncratic markers of his career so far. |
| PopMattersChris BarsantiCollaborator is a sharp and vital debut that keeps viewers guessing at all the right moments. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeBoth characters are riveting, and they even manage to earn most of the freight that Donovan loads onto his heavily ironic title. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDonovan, acting with ironic reserve, hands the movie to Morse, who makes his character the kind of crank you can care about just because he's so abysmally lost. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA quietly suspenseful, provocative and surprising directorial debut. It shows great promise in Martin Donovan's budding career as a writer/director. |
| Paste MagazineChelsey GrassoOverall, The Collaborator is the type of film that rewards repeated viewings. |
| Village VoiceChris PackhamOn one level, it's a dark, funny tragedy, but it's also Donovan's thesis on his own craft. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenCollaborator has the tone and structure of an extended one-act play. Its uniformly wooden dialogue lends it the stage-bound feel of a tortured writing exercise. |
| CinemalogueTodd JorgensonIt's a promising debut for the director and an intriguing study of characters facing desperate circumstances. |