
The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels,Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...... (Full plot summary below)
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The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels,Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...
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| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerI'm still not sure how The High Cost Of Living made it onto Canada's Top Ten, let alone how it took the best Canadian first feature award at TIFF last year. It's just not very good. |
| VarietyAlissa SimonAlthough there are moments when lead thesps Zach Braff ("Scrubs", "Garden State") and Isabelle Blais just about pull off the implausible conceit, the picture still suffers from major problems of tone as well as stilted camerawork and editing. |
| Village VoiceAaron HillisDeborah Chow's ridiculously implausible yet still predictable tale of guilt and redemption is so bipolar in tone that when it's not a more linear rip-off of Guillermo Arriaga's grim and gritty melodramas (21 Grams, Babel), it's the kind of quirky indie romance that made Braff's name. |
| L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyThe cast is uniformly good, but Isabelle Blais especially stands out as Natalie. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasSet in a noirish, gleaming Montreal, this handsome, captivating, well-paced and stylish film is fully realized in every aspect. |
| Time OutEric HynesShared tragedy can bind together the most unlikely of people. Movies often make too much of that truism, but surprisingly committed performances from actors like these can still make it feel like something meaningful. |
| Screen JunkiesFred TopelNow this is drama!... just throws the most awful situation at her characters and watches them deal with it. |
| New York TimesPaul BrunickThis debut feature by the Canadian director Deborah Chow is so artistically well-intentioned and earnest in its ambitions that you can almost forgive the banality of its every scene. |
| Jam! MoviesJim SlotekOff-beat delivery and acting redeem this modestly budgeted "redemption" story. |
| Slant MagazineNick SchagerThe High Cost of Living is yet another example of the high cost (for moviegoers) of lowered production barriers for aspiring filmmakers. |