Map of the World
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Movie Reviews of Map of the World
Movie Review: Pare it down
Summary: 3 Stars
Sigourney Weaver gives an excellent performance as Alice Goodwin, a woman who undergoes trying times when a friend's child dies while under her care, followed soon after by charges of child abuse against her by members of the small community in which she lives. This is a well-made, sincere film, but I couldn't help feeling that it was just trying to pile on too much drama. I was frustrated by the introduction of the child abuse angle and Alice's subsequent prison stay because I felt that the film had never dealt adequately with the horror of the dead child and all of the emotional consequences of it. The parents simply moved away so we could get into the next crisis before their return. Jane Hamilton probably handled this more successfully in her novel, which was the basis of this film, because she didn't have the time constraints of a movie.Movie Review: Good movie - A bit frustrating
Summary: 3 Stars
I have to agree with those who thought this movie was well done. I also have to side with those who found it frustrating and confusing at certain times. I can't blame this frustration and confusion on Sigourney Weaver though. I had to place it on the direction. There were times I felt as though the character was intentionally trying to punish herself. In the courtroom, the visitor's section of the jail. Maybe it's me, but I just didn't know at times which way the direction of the character was going.
The film is worth seeing and, despite what others may say, the actors played their parts very well.
Movie Review: To be missed
Summary: 2 Stars
"A Map of the World" adaptation of Jane Hamilton's novel is a sad story of bad luck changing the life of a woman and her family living in Wisconsin country. Snip: (...)Movie Review: not a map of the world
Summary: 1 Stars
i had read the novel years ago but had never seen the film version, so when it was offered here, i ordered it with great expectations. maybe i forgot the story & overestimated it, but this is one of the Worst films made. Sigourney Weaver is Awful , a very stilted performance, awkward and spooky, slow, not moving, unsympathetic, not at all how i would have cast it. so i didn't watch it to the end. someone told me several yrs ago that it wasn't good but i wanted to see for myself.
sorry i invested in it, should have looked for a rental, but even that would've been too much money for this pic.