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Starting Out in the Evening (2007) -- This is the U.S. trailer for Starting Out in the Evening, directed by Andrew Wagner.
Starting Out in the Evening (2007) -- An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career.

Overview

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7.1/10   1,594 votes
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Director:
Andrew Wagner
Writers:
Brian Morton (novel)
Fred Parnes (screenplay)
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Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 6 nominations more
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(3 articles)
Character actors I love: Frank Langella
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'No Country for Old Men' Tops With Critics' Awards
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and brief nudity.
Runtime:
111 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA
Company:
Cinetic Media more

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Boom mic visible: In the scene where Leonard goes back to apartment after stroke, as he sits in the chair there's a boom mic shadow visible on the back wall. The scene then shifts to Lili Taylor, and when it returns the shadow has gone. more
Quotes:
Leonard Schiller: Freedom isn't the choice the world encourages. You have to wear a suit of armor to defend it. more
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References La battaglia di Algeri (1966) more
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Not for everyone, 30 December 2007
6/10
Author: filmfan92 from United States

'Starting Out In The Evening' is a decidedly little movie, but it's complex, you-interpret-it subject matter has a faint whiff of Oscar bait. Frank Langella is Leonard Schiller, an elderly writer whose life is redefined by a series of interviews with young literary critic Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose). It's not much story, but my guesstimation would be this; two out of the three people going to see this one want to spend some quality time seeing Frank Langella do his thing. To those people, it's worth a look; Langella truly is a wonder, his deep, rolling diction imbuing every word with more meaning than most actors do an entire monologue. He tears into his literary debates with Ambrose, and delivers a slap in the film's final minutes that has to be the most devastating physical action in any film this year. But a great actor does not a great movie make; the thing is bogged down by the summer-winter romance that develops between Langella and Ambrose; instead of being a warm, sweet thing, it sent shockwaves of discomfort throughout the theater. And while Lili Taylor does a serviceable job as Schiller's daughter, her subplot just doesn't fit with the rest of the film. Perhaps the greatest problem is that Brian Morton's excellent novel of the same name was never meant for the screen, thus it's mediocre direction and bumpy screenplay. So, in summary, Frank Langella gives a splendid performance that makes this film better than it has any right to be.

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