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An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career. full summary | full synopsis
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David Thomson on Frank Langella
(From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 3:55 PM, PST)
Film Independent Now Accepting Director’s Lab Applications
(From The Flickcast. 28 August 2009, 11:30 AM, PDT)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 3:55 PM, PST)
Film Independent Now Accepting Director’s Lab Applications
(From The Flickcast. 28 August 2009, 11:30 AM, PDT)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Frank Langella | ... | Leonard Schiller | |
| Lauren Ambrose | ... | Heather Wolfe | |
| Patti Perkins | ... | Dolores | |
| Lili Taylor | ... | Ariel Schiller | |
| Adrian Lester | ... | Casey Davis | |
| Dennis Parlato | ... | Author | |
| Jeff McCarthy | ... | Charles | |
| Michael Cumpsty | ... | Victor | |
| Jessica Hecht | ... | Sandra Bennett | |
| Karl Bury | ... | Frederick | |
| Sean T. Krishnan | ... | Cab Driver | |
| Thomas Ryan | ... | Nick | |
| Anitha Gandhi | ... | Chelsea | |
| Joie Lee | ... | Second Author | |
| John C. Havens | ... | Jeff the Doorman |
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Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and brief nudity.
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111 min
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Continuity: When Ariel wears her t-shirt in close-up shots, her necklace switches back and forth between hanging outside the shirt and mostly hidden under the shirt.
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Leonard Schiller:
Freedom isn't the choice the world encourages. You have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2007-12-01)" (2007)
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Only You
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'Starting Out In The Evening' is a decidedly little movie, but it's complex, you-interpret-it subject matter has a faint whiff of Oscar bait. Frank Langella is Leonard Schiller, an elderly writer whose life is redefined by a series of interviews with young literary critic Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose). It's not much story, but my guesstimation would be this; two out of the three people going to see this one want to spend some quality time seeing Frank Langella do his thing. To those people, it's worth a look; Langella truly is a wonder, his deep, rolling diction imbuing every word with more meaning than most actors do an entire monologue. He tears into his literary debates with Ambrose, and delivers a slap in the film's final minutes that has to be the most devastating physical action in any film this year. But a great actor does not a great movie make; the thing is bogged down by the summer-winter romance that develops between Langella and Ambrose; instead of being a warm, sweet thing, it sent shockwaves of discomfort throughout the theater. And while Lili Taylor does a serviceable job as Schiller's daughter, her subplot just doesn't fit with the rest of the film. Perhaps the greatest problem is that Brian Morton's excellent novel of the same name was never meant for the screen, thus it's mediocre direction and bumpy screenplay. So, in summary, Frank Langella gives a splendid performance that makes this film better than it has any right to be.