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Diminished Capacity
Directed by
Terry Kinney
Not Rated
2008
1h 32m
Comedy
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Drama
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5.5
34%
37%
5.6
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A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's-impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
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Cast of Diminished Capacity
Matthew Broderick
Cooper
Virginia Madsen
Charlotte
Alan Alda
Uncle Rollie
Jimmy Bennett
Dillon
Louis C.K.
Stan
Jim True-Frost
Donnie Prince
Dylan Baker
Mad Dog McClure
Bobby Cannavale
Lee Vivyan
P.J. Brown
Reese
Jeff Perry
Casey Dean
Lois Smith
Belle
Tom Aldredge
Wendell
Michael Wright
McCormick
Chris Bauer
Lloyd
Heidi Neurauter
Carolyn Baeumler
Doug Bost
Screenplay
Gentry Miller
Terry Kinney
Director
Sherwood Kiraly
Screenplay
Diminished Capacity Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Sherwood Kiraly's slight script only makes this embarrassment of riches seem more embarrassing.
Hollywood.com
Pete Hammond
This Sundance hit is a sleeper surprise of the summer -- a one-of-a-kind original.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
A gentle, agreeable dramedy, Capacity reveals that Kinney has a unique hold on tone and shares a palpable charm with his actors.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Alda's Hawkeye Pierce charm gives way to something snappish and cagey, while Broderick's fussy stiffness is perfect.
Cinema Signals
Jules Brenner
Suffering from a diminished level of interest, do we know how to live up to a title, or what?
Christianity Today
Frederica Mathewes-Green
I wonder if all this worked better as a book. It begins modestly interesting, but becomes merely agitated.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Didn't we invent film festivals so we could sequester all the star-studded 'how I spent my summer vacation' indie film projects and keep them out of our arthouses?
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Jeanne Kaplan
Although this is no 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', Matthew Broderick does return to Chicago for a wonderful, wacky little gem.
Kaplan vs. Kaplan
David Kaplan
There is some suspense as to the fate of that baseball card.
Boxoffice Magazine
Amy Nicholson
A slog through determined wackiness, it's apt to leave audiences cold.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A mild pleasure from one end to the other, but not much more.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The actors look as if they're having a reasonably fine time, but there's no sense of commitment here, no sense that this was a movie that absolutely, passionately had to be made.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Striving for low-key character comedy, Diminished Capacity ends up diminishing its returns.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
It has moments of sweetness, but not enough poignancy or wit to turn it into the endearing art-house comedy that it aspires to be.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Diminished Capacity is blessed with a blue-ribbon cast.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
It's the kind of lite movie you go and see with your mom, and she'll say she liked it -- but then a year later, you're both trying to remember what it was even about.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Pure, unadulterated mediocrity.
Variety
John Anderson
A pleasant enough diversion, but DC will be bettered watched from the horizontal position of a couch, one to which the film seems all too eager to send you.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Plays like diminished comedy.
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