Winter Passing

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: February 17, 2006 (NY/LA)

Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Ed Harris, Will Ferrell, Amelia Warner, Amy Madigan 

Directed and Written by: Adam Rapp 

Premise: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being..

[The Red Vine]

That room a bit too small for them

[cine]

That room a bit too small for them

wow, can't get much more observant than that.

boy, messy floors too, huh?

[©brad]

a bittersweet, quiet little film that i very much enjoyed. wonderful performances, including farrel who is refreshingly subdued and restrained in this. and of course, the lovely zooey deschanel, who really carries the film.

i saw an off broadway play in the west village called "Red Light Winter" that was written and directed by the same Adam Rapp. he's a great writer, with dialogue so good it rivals tarantino when tarantino wrote good dialogue.

go see it.

[pete]

just saw this, now I regret not seeing it when it came out.  it really is a good movie.  in the beginning I was kinda snotty and was put off by how "indie" the whole film felt but after a while it didn't matter.  some really nice moments in there.  I never knew the title page of a book could be so moving.

[noyes]

really want to watch it. huge Zooey fan.

[Gold Trumpet]

What perception does the film paint of its locale? This film is set where I live.

[pete]

it's mostly confined to ed harris's house and its premise, then there's a little bit of the neighborhood bar and two scenes in the hospital.