
A young, pretty art teacher, Lucy (adored by every male in her small home town), attempts to embark on an affair with her co-worker, married high-school football coach, Clint. Before it can eventuate he is sucked into a bottomless, zero-gravity hole in her living room floor. One by one all town members come to inspect, theorize about and try to remove Clint from the hole, and in doing so learn about his disloyalty to his wife. The movie is a bit like Being John Malkovich in i... (Full plot summary below)
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A young, pretty art teacher, Lucy (adored by every male in her small home town), attempts to embark on an affair with her co-worker, married high-school football coach, Clint. Before it can eventuate he is sucked into a bottomless, zero-gravity hole in her living room floor. One by one all town members come to inspect, theorize about and try to remove Clint from the hole, and in doing so learn about his disloyalty to his wife. The movie is a bit like Being John Malkovich in its metaphysical satire.
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| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIt's too bad Wherham doesn't have a clue what to do with all this sticky stuff, struggling to make scenes work that don't piece together properly, while casting is largely a letdown, making whimsy feels uncomfortably labored. |
| FILMINK (Australia)John Noonan...Stranger Than Love runs alongside films such as Stranger Than Fiction and The Cobbler in terms of magic realism. |
| AV ClubJesse HassengerNo Stranger Than Love offers an accidental lesson: Attempts to write poetry ought to be preceded by attempts to read it and, preferably, understand it. |
| indieWireKate ErblandBy the time the entire town discovers that Clint is trapped in a weird hole and Lucy has fallen for Chatwin’s Rydell White, No Stranger Than Love picks up some serious steam, balancing its bizarre tone with actual charm. Sadly, however, it’s too late to pull the production out of its own gaping void: The inability to treat its characters with respect. |
| Movies with MaeMae Abdulbaki"No Stranger Than Love" makes some good points, but its message is overshadowed by its avoidance and fear of being boxed into a certain genre. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenFew will likely embrace the insufferably chirpy, high-concept rom-com that struggles to stretch a mighty shallow premise into a feature-length proposition. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeels like it probably began life as a one-act play, set almost entirely in Lucy’s living room and with a small cast of characters. It has that feeling of a piece that needed a bit more workshopping to discern its purpose and, like a lot of independent cinema that feels like it has theatrical origins, never becomes convincingly cinematic. |
| New York PostSara StewartThe considerable comic talents of Alison Brie (“Community”) are squandered by this exhaustingly quirky indie romance. |
| We Got This CoveredRobert Yaniz, Jr.Despite its worthwhile subtext, No Stranger Than Love fails in execution, dooming star Alison Brie with subpar material and a severely underwritten lead role. |
| Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinIt’s not a problem there’s a hole, as it were, in the common-sense logic of the film’s world; it’s that there’s a big, gaping hole where the illogic should be, a whole lot of nothing where there should be metaphor, playfulness, all that juicy, enigmatic, magical-realism stuff that helps films like Being John Malkovich and its many knockoffs become fodder for film-studies essays. |