The Toe Tactic
The Toe Tactic

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Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching--she now temps as an office assistant, ignoring her mother's calls, talking to herself in mirrors, and rejecting any offered intimacy. She's watched over by comic extraterrestrial beings whom we see as cartoon squiggles. They ensure that random acts bring her connections--with a neighbor boy, his mother, and his surreptitious piano teacher (the lad wants to su... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Toe Tactic:

Lily Rabe
Daniel London
H. Jon Benjamin
Kevin Corrigan
David Cross
Jane Lynch

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Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching--she now temps as an office assistant, ignoring her mother's calls, talking to herself in mirrors, and rejecting any offered intimacy. She's watched over by comic extraterrestrial beings whom we see as cartoon squiggles. They ensure that random acts bring her connections--with a neighbor boy, his mother, and his surreptitious piano teacher (the lad wants to surprise his mom). She also meets an elevator operator in the building where she temps for Ms. Hadaway, a widow with perfect diction. Can Mona take a few steps on the road to expressing emotion?

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Oregonian - 8/10 by Stan HallNot that a well-developed story arc is the chief aim here, but the screenplay is so quirky and unfocused that only in fleeting moments of emotional directness does the film make a real connection.
New York Times - 6/10 by Jeannette CatsoulisDepending on your tolerance for relentless whimsy and unflagging eccentricity, The Toe Tactic will make you gurgle with delight or groan with exasperation.
Variety - 3/10 by Joe LeydonAn aggressively whimsical mix of live-action and animation, Emily Hubley's "The Toe Tactic" is a deeply personal fable that's bound to confound (or annoy) anyone outside the filmmaker's circle of intimates.
User Review - 10/10 by Josh Gthere's no movie like this. and there will never be another movie like this. incredibly sweet and subtly brilliant.
User Review - 8/10 by Saharat SKind of brilliant, but the animated dogs bothered me; one of those movies that is subtle, sad, happy,poetic, beautiful--all at once---bunch of quirky people--Yo La Tengo score is a nice touch; kind of a low rent Eternal Sunshine--not as "out there" as his movies
User Review - 6/10 by Kevin Cgreat idea but didn't quite work for me. maybe as more people do things like this, it will become perfected.
User Review - 4/10 by Nick RThis was such a cool concept, and I could tell that the film had such potential... however, it turned out to be one of those films that tried so hard to be "artistic" that it almost completely lacked a coherent plot. I wanted to like it - I really did. I just couldn't.
User Review - 4/10 by Jamey HThey had a good concept for the movie, but it seemed that they drew on a lot of talent that they didn't have. Nobody acted like normal people. The script was overly poetic and didn't work like it should have. There were too many things unexplained and too much symbolism that didn't make sense. and honestly, by the end of it, I was very sick of everything that was going on.
User Review - 4/10 by Manisha DThe explanation of each progression of the story by the animated characters was a bit heavy handed and hard to swallow.
User Review - 4/10 by Mel VSCREENED AT THE 2008 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Written and directed by Emily Hubley, an animation veteran making her live-action, feature-length debut, [i]The Toe Tactic[/i], a drama that leans heavily on whimsical animation interludes for its charms, is a case study in how not to make a character-centered, narrative film. A chore to sit through, [i]The Toe Tactic[/i] comes off as the self-indulgent, navel-gazing meanderings of a filmmaker-wannabe who has little idea about dramatic structure or character development. Given the evidence onscreen (or, to be blunt, lack thereof), [i]The Toe Tactic[/i] will probably end up as Hubley?s first and last film as a feature-length filmmaker. [i]The Toe Tactic[/i] follows Mona Peek (Lily Rabe), an unfocused woman in her mid-twenties who?s recently learned that her mother (Mary Kay Place) has sold the family home. For Mona, the sale of the family home is nothing less than traumatic, a stark, unwelcome reminder of the premature passing of her father (Xander Berkeley) a decade earlier. Wandering on the property and actively reminiscing about her father and a long ago experience on a beach, Mona is confused for a burglar by the neighbors. An explanation to a local police officer (H. Jon Benjamin) later and Mona discovers she?s lost her wallet, probably on the train. Actually, that?s not true: For no discernible reason, Mona has become the object of interest for magical, mystical, talking, animated animals, Ralph (voiced by Don Byron), Timmy (David Cross), Honey (Andrea Martin), Eunice (Marian Seldes), and Maestro (Eli Wallach). The animated characters serve as a kind of Greek chorus, commenting on Mona?s actions and behavior and, on occasion, guiding her actions by interfering directly (which takes them into the realm of the godlike). The animated creatures give Hubley a chance to put her thirty years worth of experience in animation to work. Whether, however, they add anything to [i]The Toe Tactic[/i] outside of cloying, saccharine whimsy, too-profound-for-thee musings, and narrative shortcuts is anyone?s guess (actually, no, they don?t add anything meaningful or worthwhile). Mona?s wallet falls into the hands of a teenage boy, Wilson (Sean J. Moran), who, after finding a photo of Mona and her father at the beach, talks to ?her.? He also finds some cash that, after some urging by the younger Mona (Hillary Hubley), he uses to buy piano lessons from Hector Freegood (Kevin Corrigan). Not coincidentally, Hector and Wilson?s mother, Lacticia (Sakina Jaffrey), have shared a ?moment? (translation: they exchanged glances at a street corner waiting for a light to change). Meanwhile, Mona gets a temp job as an assistant to Victoria Hadaway (Novella Nelson), a friendly, if eccentric, recluse. Mona also strikes up a conversation with the aptly, if unimaginatively, monikered Elevator Man (Daniel London), a singer/songwriter who specializes in songs about apartment dwellers and elevator travelers. [i]The Toe Tactic[/i] depends heavily on a closed universe of coincidence and contrivance, all centered on Mona?s personal journey (one she should have taken long ago) from self-absorption and self-involvement to self-awareness and selflessness. As written, Mona is too shallow a character and her journey too clichéd for moviegoers to care much about where she ends up. Even shallower are the supporting characters to Mona?s personal drama. Few characters get any names and even fewer get backstories. Even those that get names are saddled with ridiculous sounding ones like ?Freegood,? ?Lacticia Utt,? or in the case of Mona, ?Peek? (apparently a reference to her voyeuristic tendencies). Although Hubley?s visuals are, on occasion, intriguing or inventive (when they?re not being whimsical) and the soundtrack features music by her sister?s band, Yo La Tengo, not to mention Hubley enlisting several recognizable actors in voice roles or cameos (writer/director John Sayles makes an appearance), it?s hard to believe that major film festivals have given [i]The Toe Tactic[/i] screening time and space. Frankly, [i]The Toe Tactic[/i] is too dull and unengaging for even diehard indie fans to appreciate. If Hubley gives feature filmmaking another try (a big if), hopefully she?ll bring on a co-writer or better yet, direct someone else?s screenplay.

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