Howard has a loving wife (Garner), two daughters, a prestigious job as a Manhattan lawyer, and a comfortable home in the suburbs. But inwardly he's suffocating, and eventually he snaps and goes into hiding in his garage attic leaving his family to wonder what happened to him. He observes them from his window - an outsider spying in on his own life - as the days of exile stretch into months. Is it possible to go back to the way things were?... (Full plot summary below)
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Howard has a loving wife (Garner), two daughters, a prestigious job as a Manhattan lawyer, and a comfortable home in the suburbs. But inwardly he's suffocating, and eventually he snaps and goes into hiding in his garage attic leaving his family to wonder what happened to him. He observes them from his window - an outsider spying in on his own life - as the days of exile stretch into months. Is it possible to go back to the way things were?
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| Anchorage PressIndra ArriagaWakefield illustrates what white privilege is all about - the ability to step out of one's own life, abdicate responsibility, and still one's loved ones are OK, their safety, livelihoods, and overall quality of life remains intact. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedWakefield is a terrific movie, with a devastatingly bravura performance by Bryan Cranston that seizes and grips attention from first scene to last. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperIn this haunting, darkly funny and elegiac mood piece, Cranston once again displays a nearly unparalleled ability to make us like and care about men who are selfish and impetuous and reckless — yet still seem to have a core of decency buried deep within. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordCranston, who narrates Wakefield's thoughts throughout, roots himself in this absurdly compelling character...[Swicord's] film is an interesting experiment, but it suffers from the inherent distancing of Wakefield's life going on without him. |
| New York Daily NewsAriel ScottiOne of the reasons why the film works so well is because it imagines a path anyone who’s thought about escaping their lives — and hasn’t — could take. |
| Pittsburgh City PaperAl HoffBeyond a few flashbacks, Wakefield is a one-man vehicle for Cranston, who is fantastic, cycling through the variety of emotions that comprise Howard's breakdown and disappearance from his own life. |
| NPRElla TaylorSwicord ... both respects the material and neatly corrals it for her own purposes. |
| Chicago ReaderBen SachsUneventful and dull to look at, the film adapts a short story by E.L. Doctorow that probably should have stayed on the page. |
| Associated PressMark KennedyCranston is simply remarkable in the role, a tricky one since his character has precious little dialogue with anyone else. Yet the actor shows everything here -- arrogance, sorrow, anger, love, fear. |
| The AtlanticDavid SimsIt isn't the dull midlife crisis movie it initially presents itself as. But it also doesn't do enough to lurch into more nightmarish territory. |
