Heights (2005)

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

Director:

Chris Terrio

Writers:

Amy Fox (screenplay), Amy Fox (play),

Stars:

Chandler Williams, Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chandler Williams	...	Juilliard Macbeth
Bess Wohl	...	Juilliard Lady Macbeth
Glenn Close	...	Diana
Elizabeth Banks	...	Isabel
James Marsden	...	Jonathan
Jesse Bradford	...	Alec
Daniel Neiden	...	Wedding Rabbi
Thomas Lennon	...	Marshall
Matthew Davis	...	Mark (as Matt Davis)
John Light	...	Peter
Isabella Rossellini	...	Liz
Susan Malick	...	Rachel
Rachel Siegel	...	Autograph Seeker
Katie Kreisler	...	Helen
Philip Tabor	...	Paul

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.

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Plot Keywords:

lover | lawyer | journalist | photographer | new york | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, brief sexuality and nudity

Details

Official Sites:

Merchant Ivory Productions Sony Pictures Classics [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish Hebrew

Release Date:

8 December 2005 (Israel)

Also Known As:

Co jest grane

Filming Locations:

Bryant Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

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

Gross:

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

Company Credits

Production Co:

Merchant Ivory Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min 98 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

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

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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.

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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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Crazy Credits

The producers with to thank The Staff at Blue Rock ...

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Connections

References Persona (1966)

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Soundtracks

"2wicky"
(1996)
Performed by Hooverphonic
Courtesy of Epic Records and Sony Music Entertainment (Belgium) S.A./N.V.
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

User Reviews

Passion and Urban Ennui in NY

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.