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The lives of two different families collide when their children begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
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| Film ThreatAlan NgHuman Capital is a fantastic study of people being pushed to their limits, not just financial, but emotional and social. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThere are missteps, threads that seems to clash with everything that’s woven around them. But Moverman and director Marc Meyers (“My Friend Dahmer”) keep that loom weaving, their story moving forward and their movie about the sometimes discounted value of Human Capital perfectly engrossing, from start to finish. |
| Screen RantHannah HoolihanMeyers' disjointed approach to Human Capital expertly weaves its story into a gripping mystery that's further elevated by exceptional performances. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeEngrossing on a moment-to-moment scale thanks so some very fine performances, the film doesn't click together in the transformative way such stories occasionally do, and does less with themes of wealth and class than it surely intends to. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyThis “Capital” succeeds as a well-acted crisscrosser of a melodrama between two awkwardly entangled families in upstate New York. Where it falls well short is in attaining the level of biting social commentary Virzi drew from the same material. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzHuman Capital is so exquisitely cast, down to the smallest role, that it puts viewers in the unusual position of wishing a film were a TV series or a much longer movie, the better to take advantage of its best assets. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayA magnificent cast only partially compensates for the fizzling narrative. |
| ScreenCrushJohnny OleksinskiIf you find hedge funds hard to wrap your head around, the movie Human Capital won’t do much to ease the confusion. |
| The New York TimesWesley MorrisThe Italian movie, which Paolo Virzì directed, had a marrow-deep instinct for class. There were higher costs. The people in it were stranger, with sharper angles; they were alive. This new movie, which Oren Moverman wrote, Marc Meyers directed and has parts for Liev Schreiber and Marisa Tomei, is a character study that hasn’t done its homework. |
| User ReviewKeithDowMarc Meyers’ ‘Human Capital’ is a resourceful melodrama that adequately relies on one of the better ensemble casts assembled so far this year, though it largely lacks the compelling nature and overall substance that was seen in Paolo Virzi’s 2013 version of the film based on the same source material. Liev Schreiber plays Drew, a Brooklyn real estate agent who crosses paths with Quint Manning (Peter Sarsgaard), a hedge fund manager who offers a financial investment that one should suspect as being too good to be true. As Drew hustles for enough money to buy into the scheme and the resulting payoff doesn’t go as planned, the rest of the picture’s high caliber cast is drawn into the mix, including compelling turns by Betty Gabriel, Marisa Tomei, and Paul Sparks. Each actor is so perfectly cast and each character is so precisely defined that one only wishes that the plot itself were more compelling, with higher stakes and more grounded interactions. Given that this film is adapted from the novel by author Stephen Amidon yet heavily influenced by the Italian version of the movie of the same name, the everywhere-and-nowhere tone seemingly stems from hewing to two different masters but inadequately paying tribute to either. Such is the dichotomy of ‘Human Capital’: a pleasure to watch such skilled actors make the most of the roles they are given while being frustrated at the nagging lack of any real payoff. |
