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The Event
Directed by
Thom Fitzgerald
Not Rated
2003
1h 54m
Drama
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6.2
44%
52%
5.6
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Nick is a district attorney investigating several deaths of AIDS sufferers in the gay community of New York City's Chelsea District. Each case suggests the use of assisted suicide, which is illegal in New York.
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Cast of The Event
Brent Carver
Brian Knight
Olympia Dukakis
Lila Shapiro
Jane Leeves
Mona Rothchild
Don McKellar
Matt Shapiro
Sarah Polley
Dana Shapiro
Parker Posey
Nick Devivo
Rejean Cournoyer
Rory Metzler
Cynthia Preston
Amy Eisner
Joanna Adler
Gaby Shapiro-Schnell
Dick Latessa
Uncle Leo
Christina Zorich
Judy Campbell
Ruth Moore
Dr. Fisher
Walter Borden
Fred
Chaz Thorne
Chris Devivo
Joan Orenstein
Angela DeVivo
Glen Grant
Andy Campbell
Gianna Marciante
Lilian Schnell
Jaclyn Markowitz
Amelia Schnell
Chris Barry
Third Little Maid
Ray Brimicombe
Desk Sergeant
The Event Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Intelligent, moving, but annoyingly self-satisfied...
Associated Press
Sheila Norman-Culp
Uneven yet brave and touching.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The superb performances by Olympia Dukakis and Don McKellar are what make this film rise above its limited but well-meaning script.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
To make a movie in 2003, one that centers around AIDS but ignores the epidemic's current culprit, Africa, and toys melodramatically with scenarios steeped in the filmmakers' selfish nostalgia without any real point, is to ask us not to think at all.
Dallas Morning News
Charles Ealy
The performances of Olympia Dukakis as Matt's mother and Sarah Polley as his sister elevate The Event from melodramatic claptrap to sensitive drama.
EDGE Boston
David Foucher
Parker Posey and Olympia Dukakis lend their talents to an AIDS suicide film - it has its moments, but the death rattle comes from the genre, not from the central character.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
A feminine hygiene commercial is by far the best thing here. Is that last item a curious thing to say about a film with such a weighty agenda? Exactly.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Despite its impeccable acting and subtle backdrop of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, The Event lets its message overwhelm its emotion.
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Aggressively drab and granular, the movie feels like a late-'80s AIDS passion play given an ill-fitting post-Sept. 11 makeover.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Maybe part of the reason The Event works so well is that Fitzgerald doesn't have compassion only for people dying of AIDS; his compassion rings out for anyone who's dying, period, as well as for the families and friends who care for them.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Purports to be a life- affirming celebration of a dying AIDS victim's last days, but soporific direction and awkward line readings paradoxically give it the air of a funeral dirge.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This is drama by way of sermon, spoken to the converted.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
A dawdling affair that never finds its own rhythm.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A deeply affecting film.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
It feels weirdly dated and disconnected, as it attempts to graft the events of recent years onto an '80s culture that has gone with the wind.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Fitzgerald wants it all -- he means to rub our noses in the sordid details of dying from AIDS, which is fair enough, but he also wants to romanticize it to the hilt and endear both his characters and himself to us.
Village Voice
Ed Gonzalez
Shot on crummy DV and told via flashbacks, the film largely plays out like a Reagan-era Citizen Kane.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Performances don't benefit from the picture's uncertain tone, which wavers between quasi-hardboiled 'black' comedy and guilt-tripping sentimentality.
The Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
Consistently touching, The Event brims with compassionate insight.
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