The Architect
by Matt Tauber
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Actor: Anthony LaPaglia, Hayden Panettiere, Isabella Rossellini, Sebastian Stan, Viola DavisDirector: Matt Tauber
Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Magnolia
Movie Reviews of The Architect
Movie Review: ordinary people 30 years later
Summary: 1 Stars
this movie was one of the most depressing I have seen in 10 years. The DVD jacket could be called "bait and switch". nothing was said about the lack of dimension of the characters. If looking for a good movie along this type that truly is a character study try "Ordinary People".
Summary of The Architect
Leo waters is an idealistic architect & patriarch of an affluent suburban chicago family. Tonya neely lives in crime-infested housing projects. In her campaign to get the projects rebuilt sh seeks out leo to obtain his signature on her petition to condemn the projects she designed. Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 12/05/2006 Starring: Anthony Lapaglia Hayden Panettiere Run time: 81 minutes Rating: RAnthony LaPaglia, an expert at playing the conflicted Everyman, notches another such character in The Architect, a low-budget adaptation of a play by David Greig. LaPaglia plays a Chicago architect, complacent in his teaching theories and obsessed with his scale models, who doesn't comprehend the effect of his designs on the people who actually live in his buildings. Case in point: an eighties-era housing project, now overrun by gangs, drugs, and despair. It's gotten so bad that resident Viola Davis (World Trade Center) is petitioning the city to tear the place down, and she's approached the architect about signing. Meanwhile, the movie ranges across the families of both characters, including LaPaglia's massively confused teenaged kids (Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan), both of whom are trying on unfamiliar sexual roles. Isabella Rossellini plays LaPaglia's dazed wife, who straightens up the house in order to stave off the unhappiness of her marriage. In short, there's a lot going on here, too much for the brief running time of the movie; these people tend to have emblematic traits and not much else. Enlivened by actors, that kind of thing can work better on stage than in film, where the material feels skeletal. LaPaglia and Davis are in excellent form, however, and earn some of the power of the final moments. --Robert Horton
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