
Twenty-eight year olds Jon and Vince, friends from high school, meet in Vince's seedy motel room in Lansing, Michigan. Jon had invited Vince to town from his current residence of Oakland to help celebrate the fact of his latest movie, independently shot, having a screening at the local film festival the following day, the first public screening of one of his movies. While Jon seems to have grown up in having this career path and a nice room in an upscale hotel provided by the... (Full plot summary below)
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Twenty-eight year olds Jon and Vince, friends from high school, meet in Vince's seedy motel room in Lansing, Michigan. Jon had invited Vince to town from his current residence of Oakland to help celebrate the fact of his latest movie, independently shot, having a screening at the local film festival the following day, the first public screening of one of his movies. While Jon seems to have grown up in having this career path and a nice room in an upscale hotel provided by the festival, Vince, who, in preparing for the evening has already had a few beer by the time Jon arrives, hasn't, he who deals drugs for a living with no change on the horizon, and his girlfriend, who was supposed to accompany him to Lansing, having broken up with him, indirectly because of his immaturity. This divergence quickly becomes an issue of contention between the two. But as Vince's behavior is seemingly more and more substance affected, he having broken out the weed and coke, his intention with Jon may be clearer than it appears on the surface, it having to do with an issue from high school which always seems to emerge in some respect every time they meet. That issue begins to hit home for Jon with a specific action by Vince. But everything may take a turn onto its head with the arrival onto the scene of a third - Amy - also a friend from high school involved in that issue ten years ago, she, now an Assistant D.A. in Lansing, who Vince had invited without Jon's knowledge and who Jon has not seen since high school.
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| culturevulture.netScott Von DoviakThe murky visuals are an apt match for the squalid setting and narrative ambiguities. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineDespite the obvious origins as a play--only three characters in one room--this startling film manages to keep us utterly gripped. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrA super-taut and superbly acted three-character piece. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovThis is what great dialogue -- and by extension great movies -- is made of. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyEmphasis on its combustible emotions, suspense and surprising humor should help draw sophisticated audiences who, once lured, will quickly find themselves hooked for the duration. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanLinklater has hardly been a slacker this year. I'll take the tricky confrontational babble of Tape over some of the gauzier soliloquies in ''Waking Life,'' but either way, he's a filmmaker in love with the music of talk, and let's bless him for that. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakUnfortunately can't transcend its theatrical roots and the actors, good as they are, seem like they're grandstanding. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyA typical student film with its arty angles, bad lighting and pretentious observations. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe writing, acting and direction are so convincing that at some point I stopped thinking about the constraints and started thinking about the movie's freedoms. |
| Philadelphia WeeklySean BurnsIsn't anybody else bothered by the fact that these digital 'films' look like used toilet paper? |