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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   6,504 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Michael Cunningham (novel)
Michael Cunningham (screenplay)
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Release Date:
14 October 2004 (Netherlands) more
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Family can be whatever you want it to be.
Plot:
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations more
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A touching movie from a great novel more (123 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Andrew Chalmers ... Bobby Morrow (1967)

Ryan Donowho ... Carlton Morrow
Asia Vieira ... Emily
Quancetia Hamilton ... Dancing Party Guest
Jeff J.J. Authors ... Frank (as Jeffrey Authors)
Lisa Merchant ... Frank's Date
Ron Lea ... Burt Morrow
Erik Smith ... Bobby Morrow (1974)

Harris Allan ... Jonathan Glover (1974)
Matt Frewer ... Ned Glover

Sissy Spacek ... Alice Glover

Colin Farrell ... Bobby Morrow (1982)

Dallas Roberts ... Jonathan Glover (1982)

Robin Wright Penn ... Clare

Shawn Roberts ... Club Boy
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong drug content, sexuality, nudity, language and a disturbing accident.
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97 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Scenes featuring Colin Farrell nude were cut from the movie because they were too distracting for test audiences. more
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Revealing mistakes: When Claire is running away from her friends into the desert, the bushes wiggle twice as the cameraman passes by. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[Emily is having sex with Carlton and sees Bobby in the doorway]
Emily: Oh my god!
Carlton Morrow: Come on, Em, Bobby doesn't care!
Emily: I care!
Carlton Morrow: Just relax!
Emily: Kiss my ass!
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Features All About Eve (1950) more
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Just Like a Woman more

FAQ

How does it end?
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80 out of 95 people found the following comment useful.
A touching movie from a great novel, 7 February 2005
7/10
Author: (omorteau@yahoo.com) from United States

Michael's Cunningham's book is so moving I was afraid to be deeply disappointed by the movie adaptation. Although 90 min is barely enough to narrate the story in its emotional complexity, the movie is very faithful to the book, probably because the screenplay is from Cunningham himself. The acting is excellent, and the soundtrack featuring Laura Nyro is beautiful, and if some of the book's interest is lost in translation, it still makes a pretty good movie. I find some detractors' arguments pretty amazing, as if all they'd watched was the trailer. To suggest that after Jules & Jim any movie containing a threesome is worthless, that any movie taking place in the 70s-80s is obsolete, that there was too much or not enough sex scenes, or that the AIDS theme is not developed enough, is plain ludicrous. This is not a movie about an era, about homosexuality, or about the AIDS epidemics. This is about (re)creating a place out of time and geography, where the world makes sense (again). A home, in other words. This is about loving another being (or two, since one is never complete, never enough) irrespective of family links, gender, and the established social codes. The characters are struggling to escape the rules to enjoy the "big noisy world around" and find a natural place in it. They are the opposite of stereotypical characters, at least once they are fully revealed to themselves. As for the end, it is not "unconclusive", it is what is called an open ending, and probably in this case the perfect ending, which means the only possible one. My advice: watch it, and read the novel too.

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