I'll Take You There (1999)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Adrienne Shelly

Writer:

Adrienne Shelly (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

A woman forces a man to move forward with his life after his wife dumps him. |

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Ally Sheedy	...	Bernice
Reg Rogers	...	Bill
Pamela Gray	...	Girlfriend in car
Lara Harris	...	Rose
John Pyper-Ferguson	...	Ray
Alice Drummond	...	Stella
Alan North	...	Max
Adrienne Shelly	...	Lucy
Ben Vereen	...	Mr. Gwin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Enerson	...	Tom
Stephen Gevedon	...	Chris
Andrew Hollander	...	Bartender
Motoki Kobayashi
Lawrence Nathanson	...	Eddie
Justin Pierce

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Hollywood Partners

Trivia:

Alan North's last film.

Goofs:

Continuity: Bernice's cigarette keeps changing length while she is talking to Ray at the Kitchen table.

Misery and Comedy - Chaplinesque and Allenesque

I was totally impressed by Shelley Adrienne's "Waitress" (2007). This movie only confirms what was clear from that movie. Adrienne was a marvelously talented writer-director, an original and unique artist. She managed to show the miseries of everyday life with absurd humor and a real warm optimistic and humanistic tendency. Ally Sheedy steals this movie with a terrific performance as a woman who has fallen over the edge. Male lead Reg Rodgers, looking like Judd Nelson, is fine. There is also a great cameo by Ben Vereen. The song at the end of the movie "The Bastard Song" written by Adrienne can stand as her optimistic eulogy:

"It's a world of suffering,

In a sea of pain,

No matter how much sun you bring,

You're pummeled by the rain...

Don't let the heartless get you down,

Don't greet the heartless at your door,

Don't live among the heartless"