Starting Out in the Evening
Starting Out in the Evening

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Against the backdrop of Manhattan's changing literary and publishing world, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is asked by Heather Wolfe, a graduate student and budding literary critic, to agree to interviews. He's reluctant to spend the time: his health is failing and he wants to finish one more book. Also he's worried about his daughter, Ariel, who's approaching 40, underemployed, single and wanting a child. But he agrees, hoping Heather can help resurrect interest in his work... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Starting Out in the Evening:

Frank Langella
Lauren Ambrose
Patti Perkins
Adrian Lester
Lili Taylor
Dennis Parlato

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Against the backdrop of Manhattan's changing literary and publishing world, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is asked by Heather Wolfe, a graduate student and budding literary critic, to agree to interviews. He's reluctant to spend the time: his health is failing and he wants to finish one more book. Also he's worried about his daughter, Ariel, who's approaching 40, underemployed, single and wanting a child. But he agrees, hoping Heather can help resurrect interest in his work. As Heather probes Frank's writing and his past, Ariel reconnects to a former lover. Emotions can be raw and messy, and as relationships change, who gets the better part of the bargain?

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Baltimore Sun - 10/10 by Michael SragowA rapturous, ruefully funny flight of sympathetic imagination. Featuring the first movie role for Frank Langella that ranks with his best stage parts, it's a rare kind of American movie.
The Hollywood Reporter - 10/10 by James GreenbergSucceeds so beautifully because of a compelling story, great acting, intelligent writing and sensitive direction.
Los Angeles Times - 10/10 by Kenneth TuranIntelligent, involving and conspicuously adult, Starting Out in the Evening is almost shocking in its distinctiveness, its ability to create high drama from an unlikely source.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertThe movie is carefully modulated to draw us deeper and deeper into the situation, and uses no contrived plot devices to superimpose plot jolts on what is, after all, a story involving four civilized people who are only trying, each in a different way, to find happiness.
The Tyee (British Columbia) - 10/10 by Dorothy WoodendFor all its sturm and drang, there is an elegiac quality about the film, maybe because fewer and fewer people apparently care very much about writing or writers.
JWR - 10/10 by S. James Weggut when all is finally revealed it’s gesture—especially the hands—that lifts this film into the ranks of extraordinary and ... bears repeated viewings to savour the subtlety and intimate sense of self.
Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumPart of Morton's achievement is to present all four people through the viewpoints of the other three; Wagner can't do that, but the performances are so nuanced that the characters remain multilayered, and they're not the sort of people we're accustomed to finding in commercial films.
Kansas City Star - 9/10 by Robert W. ButlerIt's a thinking person's movie in the best sense of the phrase.
The Moving Picture Show - 9/10 by Joe LeydonIt's an intimate drama -- a chamber piece, really -- that deals intelligently with intriguing themes and provocative ideas regarding the ambiguous motives and borrowed-from-life material that fuel the creative process.
Rolling Stone - 9/10 by Peter TraversLangella delivers a master class in acting. He's playing Leonard Schiller, an aging author aching from the loss of his wife, a weak heart and literary neglect.

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