Living Out Loud
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Movie Reviews of Living Out Loud
Movie Review: It has hope
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie and I thought it gave hope to those of us that have passed a similar situation. I think it reflects that in life we need enjoy to its fullest. I enjoyed the entire movie and I even liked the music. This is the kind of movie you want to watch and go out and learn to scuba dive. Buy it if you can. It's a keeper!Movie Review: Living Out Loud
Summary: 4 Stars
The DVD was in perfect shape and arrived very quickly in the mail. I wondered if some scenes were shorter than the original movie in the DVD version. However, the story still stands as funny and charming with excellant performances. There's a couple of scenes in the movie that still make me laugh out loud.Movie Review: Existential tale disguised as a chix flix...
Summary: 4 Stars
...forget the kiss, forget the Hot Fun symbolic scene, forget the 'love and lost love' thing. This and the more recent 'Lost in Translation' has a person searching for the reason we live. This one more or less gives the solution. 'Lost'leaves it up to you. See both side by side to see what I mean.Movie Review: Loneliness Defined.
Summary: 3 Stars
Richard LaGravenese is a premier screenwriting talent. That his first feature as director would be a very personal, smallish film is not surprising. That many of the wonderful nuances he'd hoped for don't survive the final print is also not surprising.Living Out Loud suffers from bad casting of great actors. Holly Hunter is a bit strong willed, maybe too dynamic for the mousy Judith. Danny DeVito is not a guy we want to see battling his romantic side. Martin Donovan we hardly can believe as a legitimate part of society, a cardiologist no less. And Queen Latifah is about 25 years too young to play Ella Fitzgerald.
Without stable, understandable casting choices, the viewer has to work far too hard to understand the inner motivations of the main characters. The story translation suffers, the nuance, the payoff is severely diluted.
I liked the film, but in different hands it might have been far better. Don't get me wrong, You have to walk before you can run, and I'll gladly give M. LaGravenese another chance. I likely will not be disappointed.