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Winter Passing
Directed by
Adam Rapp
R
2005
1h 38m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.2
40%
61%
6.0
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An editor offers actress/bartender Reese $100,000 for her late mom's letters from her novelist dad. She heads home from NYC to get them and finds her dad living in the garage while two strangers live in the house.
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Cast of Winter Passing
Zooey Deschanel
Reese Holden
Will Ferrell
Corbit
Ed Harris
Don Holden
Amy Madigan
Lori Lansky
Amelia Warner
Shelly
John Bedford Lloyd
Leontes
Deirdre O'Connell
Deirdre
Mandy Siegfried
Ruth
Dallas Roberts
Ray
Ivan Martin
Bartender
Mary Jo Deschanel
Mary
Sam Bottoms
Brian
Anthony Rapp
Dean
Rachel Dratch
Female MC
Michael Chernus
Ben
Darrell Larson
Director
Robert Beitzel
Rob
Laurie Kennedy
Nun
Jim True-Frost
Doctor
Betsy Aidem
Nurse
Winter Passing Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Midway through, Rapp loses momentum, failing to hone in on just what kind of movie he wants to make, and Winter Passing languishes in that no-man's land between tiny, meandering, indie drama and plotted, pointed family melodrama.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
This flawed drama about a self-destructive young actress and her reclusive novelist father has its rewards, mainly in some good performances.
Oregonian
Marc Mohan
[Adam] Rapp's screenplay doesn't have much sympathy for its characters.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
There are intriguing actors and ideas here, but only occasionally do they combine with convincing force.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This is the kind of movie routinely dismissed as too slow and quiet by those who don't know it is more exciting to listen than to hear.
Dallas Morning News
Mario Tarradell
It's a disturbing movie, particularly the first half, and one not easily digested.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Winter Passing is one dull, extended encounter session among hackneyed characters.
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
A kind of lugubrious shtick takes over.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
The way it's done is so authentic, and you have such good performances from everybody involved here, and some very true writing.
New York Post
Linda Stasi
Rapp plays out the relationships between these superficially drawn characters in an entirely pat manner, yet Deschanel manages to make Winter Passing almost matter. That's real talent.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Underneath the contemplative tone and poetic visuals lies a disappointingly familiar coming-of-age story.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
A portrait of grieving artists, trying to get back to the quotidian business of suffering.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
Sometimes a single scene sets such a strong tone that the rest of the film has a hard time breaking it.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Adam Rapp's story of an embittered child's homecoming and confrontation with a parent throws off dramatic sparks, but they never flare into a blaze.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
[Rapp] brings out in Deschanel a sense of yearning, an avidity, that hits home. It's her most emotionally layered performance.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
The writer-director's affection for those characters is apparent, but with the exception of a few unpredictable moments from Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell, Winter Passing finds only cliche as it reaches for profundity.
Observer
Rex Reed
Adam Rapp, who wrote and directed this ordeal, overloads a synthetic storyline with more complex and hard-won epiphanies than such a fragile little movie can support.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The film is so grindingly predictable that I was writing out a full plot synopsis in my notebook before it was half over, though the thick grains of Terry Stacey's photography and Deschanel's understated performance add a little kick.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
The film delivers nothing more than a familiar Sundance-style brand of stagy, small-scale drama.
Variety
Robert Koehler
Family drama appears content to present the situation without going for anything remotely close to the emotional jugular.
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