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Heights (2005)

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Spanning twenty-four hours, Heights follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

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Cast

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Juilliard Macbeth
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Diana
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Isabel
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Jonathan
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Alec
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Wedding Rabbi
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Marshall
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Liz
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Autograph Seeker
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Helen
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Paul
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Storyline

'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that her husband has a new lover and begins to re-think her life choices and her open marriage. Diana and Isabel's paths cross with Alec, a young actor, and with Peter, a journalist. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day. Written by Sujit R. Varma

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Rated R for language, brief sexuality and nudity | See all certifications »
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Release Date:

8 December 2005 (Israel)  »

Also Known As:

Co jest grane  »

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$52,885 (USA) (17 June 2005)

Gross:

$1,158,405 (USA) (23 September 2005)
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Trivia

Mia Farrow was the original choice for Liz, but had to bow out, due to stage commitments. See more »

Goofs

Correction for Alec and Isabel leaving the building in the beginning of the film. Alec did not came out of a door, he exited the elevator with his dog. See more »

Quotes

[to Alec in his costume for the Fringe Festival]
Laura: What's more appealing, working with Diana Lee or playing the Dragon Wizard?
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References Persona (1966) See more »

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"2wicky"
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Performed by Hooverphonic
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By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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Passion and Urban Ennui in NY
17 May 2005 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

This film begins with the Glenn Close character, a famous actress who could be Close herself, giving a master class in Shakespeare to a bunch of Juilliard acting students, in which she laments the lack of passion she sees in their performances and, more broadly, in the world she inhabits. Which is a fitting, and ironic, prologue for a movie that looks at the ennui of urban lives and the emotional earthquakes that disrupt them. This is a contemporary New York character-driven drama, but it reminds me of a 1970s movie -- in a good way. There are slightly retro split screens, long-lens conversations like mid-period Woody Allen movies, and a sense of lightness in the directing style that never becomes slickness. It's also refreshing to see an independent film that doesn't completely deteriorate in the third act -- it's almost become taboo to tell a story that is satisfying in the world of independent film, because it's seen as a concession to Hollywood. But this manages to do it in a convincing way without selling out to the forces of cheesiness or convention.


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