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Love and Diane
Directed by
Jennifer Dworkin
2002
2h 35m
Documentary
7.6
97%
88%
6.0
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Documentary on a recovering crack addict and her troubled daughter as they navigate the obstacles of joblessness, parenthood, welfare, and public housing.
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Cast of Love and Diane
Diane Hazzard
Herself
Donyaeh Hazzard
Himself
Love Hazzard
Herself
Jennifer Dworkin
Director
Love and Diane Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
It's Dworkin's empathy that allows one to understand Diane and Love's experience and to care about what happens to them, or at least to ask if passivity in the face of injustice makes us more like Love than we would think.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Paul Doro
Compelling from beginning to end.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Presents a story as insightful as it is harrowing.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Dworkin gives a compassionate face to the miasma of New York's family court-social services matrix.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It is a movie about the real challenge of heroism.
Newsday
John Anderson
A velvet-swaddled, iron-fisted documentary that will set standards of vérité filmmaking for years to come.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Vivid, accomplished and ultimately soul-touching.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
A serious and illuminating documentary that, at two hours and 35 minutes, fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail.
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
Shatters myths and stereotypes about the welfare cycle as it delivers an unforgettable portrait of complex lives still largely ignored by popular culture.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
By the time the film ends, we have come to feel that we are practically members of the Hazzard family. The flip side is that we are also exhausted by the numbing accumulation of mundane detail, all too vividly rendered.
Salon.com
Laura Miller
An intimate and finely textured portrait of several messed-up lives.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
You are left with two emotions -- despair and hope -- after watching producer-director Jennifer Dworkin's disquieting documentary.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A work with the pull of the dramatic and the shock of the real.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
From first shot to last, Dworkin's movie is a continuously absorbing, sometimes revelatory, frequently moving experience.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Dworkin assembles Love and Diane with great articulation and a human compassion worthy of Frederick Wiseman.
Filmcritic.com
Nick Schager
Submerges us so deeply in the plight of its titular matriarch Diane Hazzard ... that one feels like it would be perfectly natural to walk up to her on the street and give her an affectionate hug.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
What lifts the film above many other high-minded documentaries dealing with poverty and the welfare cycle is the filmmaker's astounding empathy for both Diane and Love.
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