Movie review.
Jun. 24th, 2005 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saxikathLast night I went to the Boston premiere of Heights (as I mentioned in an earlier post). Now, it's not possible for me to be objective about this movie; it was written by a woman I've known since she was born. Her family and mine were next-door neighbors all through my childhood, and they might as well be family themselves.
That said, I recommend the movie very much. It's a drama about one day in the interconnected lives of several New Yorkers, led by Glenn Close and Elizabeth Banks as a famed actress and her daughter. Some aspects of the plot are a little obvious; you can see certain developments coming. But the performances are excellent, and, while I'm biased, I do think Amy Fox (the writer) has a real gift for capturing the ways people talk. (ACRONYMians out there: Amy's the younger sister of our teammate David Fox.)
Those of you who live in or have connections to New York would, I think, particularly like it. It's in some ways very much a New York movie; one of the characters makes a remark about how six degrees of separation is more like two in New York, and you get that feeling in the movie.
Anyway, I encourage everyone to go see it. In Boston, it's playing at the Kendall Theater (and possibly other places, I don't know). It will be opening around the country in the next week or so, if it hasn't opened where you are yet.
That said, I recommend the movie very much. It's a drama about one day in the interconnected lives of several New Yorkers, led by Glenn Close and Elizabeth Banks as a famed actress and her daughter. Some aspects of the plot are a little obvious; you can see certain developments coming. But the performances are excellent, and, while I'm biased, I do think Amy Fox (the writer) has a real gift for capturing the ways people talk. (ACRONYMians out there: Amy's the younger sister of our teammate David Fox.)
Those of you who live in or have connections to New York would, I think, particularly like it. It's in some ways very much a New York movie; one of the characters makes a remark about how six degrees of separation is more like two in New York, and you get that feeling in the movie.
Anyway, I encourage everyone to go see it. In Boston, it's playing at the Kendall Theater (and possibly other places, I don't know). It will be opening around the country in the next week or so, if it hasn't opened where you are yet.
