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Staring:
Ed Harris,
Zooey Deschanel,
Will Ferrell,
Darrell Larson,
John Bedford Lloyd
Director:
Adam Rapp
Average Customer Rating:   
List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $6.47
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543243212
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-05-16
Running Time: 98
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2004 |
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Description
Adam Rapp's offbeat film about homecoming and reconciliation features an all-star cast, including Will Ferrell (Old School), Zooey Deschanel (Almost Famous, Elf) and Oscar® nominee Ed Harris (1998, Best Supporting Actor, The Truman Show). When a book editor (Academy Award® nominee Amy Madigan ? 1985, Best Supporting Actress, Twice in a Lifetime) offers to buy the love letters of Reese Holden's (Deschanel) parents, Reese must return home to recover them, only to find her widowed dad (Harris) golfing upstairs, sleeping outside, and living with roommates ? a pretty grad student (Amelia Warner) and a quirky wanna-be musician (Ferrell)! As Reese begins to understand her roots, she learns to accept who she's become.
Amazon.com
Reese (Zooey Deschanel, All the Real Girls) is a brusk barmaid/actress, toiling away in the East Village fringe circuit. Her father is reclusive J.D. Salinger-like author Don Holdin (Ed Harris, A History of Violence). Reese hasn't seen him for years. One night after a performance, an editor from a major publishing house (Amy Madigan, Carnivàle), offers $100,000 for the letters he and her late mother exchanged during their courtship. Reese turns her down flat. Eventually, she changes her mind and takes off for rural Michigan to retrieve them. She finds the disheveled, hard-drinking Don living with former student Shelly (Amelia Warner, Quills) and ex-Christian rocker Corbit (a disarmingly straight-faced Will Ferrell). It's a bizarre, if functional arrangement: Shelly cooks the meals, while Corbit serves as security guard. All try to make nice, but the coke-snorting, insult-flinging Reese won't have any of it. She just wants to find the letters and go. This turns out to be trickier than expected, especially once she actually sits down to read them. Directed by and adapted from his two-act play, Adam Rapp's Winter Passing is the kind of well-intentioned independent where longstanding family issues are solved in just a few days (to the gentle strains of Cat Power and the Shins). Nonetheless, it offers the unique opportunity to see Deschanel and Ferrell, Elf's charmingly mis-matched couple, cast against type. As expected, Harris provides solid support, while Warner's clear-eyed Shelly is the true heart of the story. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Psychotic, but a good story, 2010-02-08
I feel in love with Zooey Deschanel in this movie. She is oddly promiscuous and psychotic. I love the way the story weaves together and the ending is peaceful.
Winter Passing...it gets slower every year., 2008-12-16
This was a wonderful movie! It made a great Christmas present for a friend of mine!! I'd recommend it to anyone. Simply because, anyone can relate to this movie.
Winter Passing, 2008-06-14
I thought this movie had interesting characters. It is a little on the dark side of human nature and a relationship between a father and daughter. The actors do a marvelous job in their portrayal of characters. The story line kept my interest throughout.
I Was Horrified, 2009-12-31
I was horrified to see the Zooey Deschanel character drown a kitten early in the film. I took out the dvd and threw it in the trash. Do not watch this film if you have any human feelings.
I wanted to slap all these people, 2009-06-08
Mostly annoying, whiney film about a J.D. Salinger-type character and his whiney, entitled, annoying little brat of a daughter. The eccentricities on display just got on my nerves. Will Ferrell is mildly amusing as a weirdo who lives with the crazy author. Nice indie rock soundtrack, though.
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