Come Early Morning
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Movie Reviews of Come Early Morning
Movie Review: was okay
Summary: 3 Stars
I enjoyed the movie alright .. had an okay story line .. but of course this doesn't have in-depth charactors .. and so .. its pretty fair to watch one time but normally would have rated it and routed it on .. but the reason I actually bought this movie ... is because my husbands sister is in one of the bar scenes .. and so I had to buy it for him ...Movie Review: Could have been better, could have gone deeper but Judd is still fantastic...
Summary: 2 Stars
I had very high hopes for this movie. It stars one of my favorite actresses, Ashley Judd, and it promised to be a return to form for her, her best performance to date, something to finally get her noticed by the academy maybe. It's a shame that Judd is really the only redeeming factor in this film. `Come Early Morning' suffers from being just too plain, nothing special indeed. There really is no life to this movie other than Judd's impressive performance. I think my wife summed it up best when she said "she's a whore who had a bad life, end of story" and that is really the case here. In fact we never really even get a real glimpse into what made her life so incredibly bad other than she had a philandering father who she never really had a relationship with and the family around her seems to fight an awful lot.
The film, written and directed by actress Joey Lauren Adams (who is another one of those talented actresses who never seems to get a break in the right movie), revolves around Lucy Fowler. She is afraid of rejection more than anything else and so she spends her nights with one stranger after another, drowning her sorrow and or pain in booze. This is until she meets Cal Percell, a newbie to her town and a gentleman of sorts. He wants to have a real relationship with Lucy and she seems to want the same with him, but her innate tendencies start to tear them apart before they really have a chance to begin. She struggles to right things with her father, accompanying him to his new `holy roller' church and she continues to visit and help out her family the best way she can. She's guided somewhat by her roommate Kim, a young girl who has very different views on love, life and dating.
The film fails to really go anywhere. Its premise is one of promise but it never capitalizes on it. I saw this playing on Lifetime the other night and I chuckled a little bit because that's what this movie feels like, a Lifetime movie. The execution is a bit amateurish. Sure, Lucy may be a character close to Lauren Adams heart but you'd think that she would have really wanted to flesh her out more then. By the end of the film the audience is left not really caring what happens to Lucy because the film doesn't really give us a reason to.
But there is Ashley Judd, and the hype is not overdone. She really turns out a stand up knock down drag out performance here, really embracing all that she's given despite the lack of real material. She's completely believable and convincing in her execution. I really want to see her embraced for her talent because she has so much of it. Laura Prepon is wasted here as Kim, she really doesn't have much to work with and is kind of left to fall flat on her face. Jeffrey Donovan is decent here but is overshadowed by Judd's magnificence. In fact, the only actor that holds him own against Judd is Scott Wilson who plays her father. The final confrontation between the two is his moment to really shine without even saying a word. While I feel that the scene should have gone a little deeper his solemn silent performance was touching to say the least.
In the end I really can't say much more about the film. It's not one I would ever recommend to anyone wanting to witness a good film, but if you're a fan of Judd and want to see her really sink her teeth into a performance then watch this for that reason and that reason only.
Movie Review: Just Didn't Make It
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie was a good idea. However, it fails to explore the plot fully. It fails to give sufficient background to set up the sins-of-the-fathers story. Why is Judd's character estranged from her father? Vague hints about alcoholism are not enough explanation. Where is her mother? Why is she terrified of commitment? Nothing about past boyfriends is ever mentioned. How, in a town too small to have more than one veterinarian (or more than one bar, it seems) does she manage to find total strangers to sleep with?
The story gets interesting when the protagonist starts looking for answers in the Bible. However, she never solves anything. There is no redemption. There is no sense of sin as anything other than as a curse inflicted on her by her forebears. She has no real sense of guilt, no repentance, no redemption.
Her knight in shining armor is written poorly. If he's so great, why does he take her home with him after their first date? Why does he sleep with her when she's dead drunk? Why doesn't he bother to get to know why she has such serious "issues" if he actually cares about her?
Joey Lauren Adams is a fabulous actress. Unfortunately, that may not translate into being a good director. Besides never answering important questions, this movie is repetitive. Every visit to her Nana is the same; every morning waking up in a strange bed is the same; every trip to her grandfather's grave, or her father's church, or her other grandmother's home, is the same. In attempting to show patterns, Adams should let the story break free of the patterns.
This story could have gone downhill, which would have been interesting. Judd's character could get an STD, become pregnant, lose her job, find video of herself on the internet, be injured by one of her one-night stands . . . or all of the above. But no, there are no real consequences for her self-destructive behavior--just a little self-loathing and one unpleasant encounter with a previous Mr. Goodbar. This story could have gone uphill, showing a determination to change, some encouragement to keep trying. It could at least have resulted in some insightful conversations (with the wannabe boyfriend, with the father). Instead, it just fades away (literally) in the sunset.
Movie Review: Too vague, not a good movie
Summary: 2 Stars
"Come early morning" is about a woman that is tired of her drinking habits, sleeping around and her relationship with her family. The movie was not cohesive enough to deliver a comprehensible plot. The movie was all over the place; never explaining the relationships between the different characters (which remained vague at best), nor the process of growth for Ashley Judd's character, it was merely implied. The movie does not know where to go. Although Judd's performance was good, the rest of the movie did not provide a vehicle where that performance could shine through. Actually, the movie was so vague about pretty much everything that the viewer could not really and truly understand what is going on between the different characters. The movie is also very sad and depressing. Skip it unless you are an Ashley Judd fan.Movie Review: Love Ashley Judd, just not this movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I think Ashley Judd is an incredibly talented actress and usually will watch movies just because she is in them. But this was a really bad movie as far as story lines goes. I came away from this movie feeling very little, mostly that I wasted 2 hours watching. No inspiration, no thoughtful moments not even a just plan good entertainment. I hate to say it, but skip this movie.