Name: Evening
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Romance
Released: 2007
Duration: T1H57M
Cast: Clare Danes, Toni Collette, Patrick Wilson, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep

Trailer

Ann (Redgrave) is now an old lady, hooked up to an oxygen machine in a dark room she’ll never leave. When she closes her eyes, she remembers a happy time when she was in love a man whom she’s never since forgotten. While the narrative fades between the older and younger Ann (Danes), her two daughters sit at her side. One in particular (Collette) is very interested in her mother’s secret past, hoping that it might provide clues to understanding the meaning of true love and the bonds that bind us together.

2007Rating: M, Low level offensive language117 minsUSA

AdaptationDramaRomance

All Reviews (8)

Director:: Lajos Koltai (English-language debut)
Writer:: Susan MinotMichael Cunningham
Cast:: Clare DanesToni CollettePatrick WilsonVanessa RedgraveMeryl StreepHugh DancyGlenn Close

Evening / Reviews

Flicks, Andrew Hedley

Evening is a ponderous extended metaphor for the twilight hours before death. It might look very good, and feature a top cast, but it feels empty and often silly. Any atmosphere or emotion is hampered by nonsensical dialogue and stilted acting.

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Hollywood Reporter

An all-star team of filmmakers takes on a minor-league story. The cast and crew here include multiple Oscar winners and nominees, a Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter, and a director, a much-honored cinematographer who collaborated with a Nobel Prize-winning author no less for his first film. Alas, the thing they all choose to labor over is a thin, overwrought tale of New England bluebloods wallowing in self-perpetuated angst and recriminations. At the end of the movie, everyone decides to get over it. Wow, that's a relief...

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Roger Ebert

There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep. "Evening" creeps through its dolorous paces as prudently as an undertaker...

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New Zealand Herald

Perfect flick for mums and daughters to bond over, just be prepared for it to take a couple of hours...

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Newshub

Despite the obviously compelling premise and the stellar cast, this film just failed to deliver on an emotional level...

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Empire Magazine

This multi-generational chick flick may be blessed with a stellar cast but unfortunately errs on the pretentious side...

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Christchurch Press

Even Hungarian director Lajos Koltai's beautiful autumnal hues can't lift the maudlin mood or the Mills and Boon-level love affair.

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BBC

A raft of award-winners head up the cast and crew of Evening, but this slick-loooking melodrama heaves under the weight of all those gongs. Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, and Vanessa Redgrave (to name a few) act out Michael Cunningham's (The Hours) co-written script for acclaimed cinematographer-turned-director Lajos Koltai. But before hooking the big names, the producers should have beefed up the story...

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