Coming-of-age tale set aboard a freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale instead finds the experience rich in unexpected ways. The men's bravado and comical posturing gives way as their lively story-telling reveals more about their mythologized view of life than about what actually may have happened.... (Full plot summary below)
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Coming-of-age tale set aboard a freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale instead finds the experience rich in unexpected ways. The men's bravado and comical posturing gives way as their lively story-telling reveals more about their mythologized view of life than about what actually may have happened.
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| The Moving Picture ShowJoe LeydonIf you're an admirer of [Mamet's] work, or if you're willing to be as patiently observant as Dale, you will find much that is fascinating and illuminating. |
| Chicago TribuneJohn PetrakisLakeboat requires its audiences to embrace it as lovingly as Mamet and Mantegna embrace its men, but it's a lot to ask. |
| Dallas Morning NewsJane SumnerAs with any Mamet script, the cast is all, and these old boys take his macho monologues and make them sound like Homer. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaBeautiful moments of performance such as Forster's subtly spellbinding monologues -- make for compelling cinema. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA first-rate movie made from one of David Mamet's lesser plays. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversBrought to the screen awkwardly but ardently by Mamet-actor supreme Joe Mantegna in his feature-directing debut. |
| VarietyEmanuel LevySo fractured and so awkwardly staged that end result is an uninvolving film that’s dramatically inert and artistically shapeless. |
| Journal News (Westchester, NY)Marshall FineMantegna takes the episodic, almost skit-like structure of the play and turns it into snapshots of a vanishing way of life. |
| L.A. WeeklySteven Leigh MorrisMamet's fixation on language is ... more effective onstage than onscreen, where the technical and visual requirements distract from the sounds of the words -- the heart of Mamet's work. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerThe magic is in the words, and there's always laughter, anger and sadness to be found in David Mamet's poetry of inarticulateness. |
