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Overview

User Rating:
6.3/10   865 votes
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Director:
Jeff Stanzler
Writer (WGA):
Jeff Stanzler (written by)
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Release Date:
1 March 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
The dust has finally settled... for most of us.
Plot:
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman (Robin Wright Penn) with unexpected results. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
Completely falls apart in the third act more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Abdel Kechiche ... Ashade (as Abdellatif Kechiche)
Remy K. Selma ... Imam

Robin Wright Penn ... Phoebe
Jim Ryan ... Security Guard
Starla Benford ... Traffic Officer

Sandra Oh ... Phyllis MacIntyre

Élodie Bouchez ... Eloise
Makani Rietveld ... Ashade's Nephew

Aasif Mandvi ... Hassan

Fred Durst ... Evan Jealous
Rich Monahan ... European Cab Driver
Annouchka Yameogo-Stanzler ... Socialite #1

Jennifer McCabe ... Socialite #2
Maya Mikhailov ... Socialite #3
David Bishins ... INS Agent
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Untitled Post-9/11 Cab Drama (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
Canada:83 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Arabic | French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more

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Trivia:
Shot in 15 days. more
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Referenced in No Apologies: 'Sorry, Haters' Roundtable (2006) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Bull In The Heather more

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26 out of 31 people found the following comment useful:-
Completely falls apart in the third act, 30 April 2006
5/10
Author: anhedonia from Planet Earth

Here's a film I knew very little, if anything, about going in, found utterly compelling in the beginning, thoroughly intriguing in the middle and completely frustrated at the end as the story veered off so wildly in the third act.

That's not to say "Sorry, Haters" isn't a fascinating movie to see.

The main reason to see this is Robin Wright Penn's mesmerizing performance as a woman - Phoebe - who just keeps twisting and turning our expectations of who she is. Watching Phoebe come undone while Penn keeps her completely rational makes the character that more frightening.

Abdel Kechiche - as Ashade, a Syrian chemist working as a New York cab driver and trying to get his brother out of Gitmo - is so believable in the role. You don't doubt his anger and frustration at what's going on and you can understand why he he is who he is.

Writer-director Jeff Stanzler provides an interesting landscape of post-9/11 America. He also provides one of the scariest rationalizations a character can provide for that horrible day.

Stanzler doesn't let us get all that comfortable with the story and throws in a doozy of a twist in the middle. We never see it coming and it just makes the film that much stronger and powerful.

But then comes the denouement.

It's almost as if Stanzler just had no idea how to end his film given the circumstances in which he had placed his two leading characters. So he devises this rather ludicrous change that takes the story completely off-kilter. He just keeps going and you can sense the story going off-track. But Stanzler doesn't seem to mind and, ultimately, the film veers off course and winds up with an utterly preposterous and unconvincing finale. I was never looking for something happy; I just wanted something that I could believe.

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