A Slipping Down Life
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Actor: Guy Pearce, Sara RueBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
- Actors: Guy Pearce, Sara Rue.
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC.
- Language: English.
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Rated R. Run Time: 109 minutes.
Movie Reviews of A Slipping Down Life
Movie Review: Offbeat and unique romance. Great characters. Good film.
Summary: 5 Stars
Adapted from a novel by Ann Tyler, this is a small independent film that has finally been released after being an limbo since 1998. Toni Kalem, who sometimes appears as one of Carmela's friends in The Sopranos, is the writer/director of this film and she's taken the material and suited it well to the screen.
Starring Lili Taylor as a mousy young woman in a rather bleak and depressed small town in the south, we can all identify with her attraction to a local rock musician played by Guy Pearce. She becomes obsessed with him even though he doesn't even notice her. Suddenly, in an act that shocked me with its suddenness, she goes into a ladies room and, with a piece of broken glass, she carves his name into her forehead.
This, of course, gets his attention, and they even have their picture put in the newspaper together. It's not surprising that a romance then blossoms and they marry. During the rest of the film, we see the scar on her forehead in various stages of healing. Lili Taylor is an incredibly gifted actress and she plays the role both tough and sweet with an inner core that is clear, pure and honest, especially as her husband's career is failing and she's the one who has to hold the relationship together.
Most of the film is very subtle, the textures are soft, the feeling is quiet and we get a glimpse of the working class lives of the characters that is all about survival. And yet there is love in this film and the eccentric romance is unique and interesting. I would have enjoyed it a bit more if it were just a little shorter and moved a little faster. However, I'm aware that this is my particular taste and the rather slow pacing of this offbeat romance was well suited to the material. Recommended.
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