Canvas

Canvas (2006)

  • 75% of critics liked it
    (28 reviews)

  • 65% of users liked it
    (492 ratings)

Mental illness stretches a loving family to the breaking point in this independent drama. Chris Marino (Devon Gearhart) is a ten-year-old boy growing up in a small oceanside community in Florida. Chris's father John (Joe Pantoliano) is a construction worker who is struggling to hold the family… More

PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.
Directed By
Joseph Greco
Written By
Joseph Greco
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Oct 12, 2007 Wide
On DVD
Jan 29, 2008
Screen Media Films

Critic Reviews

  • Jason Anderson, Toronto Star

    Though Canvas may not deviate much from the formula followed by so many other movies about families imperiled by health crises, it's unusually perceptive about the ways that loved ones process (or fail to process) the resulting stress.

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    It's like a public service announcement with dialogue.

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    Writer-director Joseph Greco makes a nice feature-film debut telling a true, disturbing story about a 10-year-old boy struggling to cope with a schizophrenic mother.

  • , Los Angeles Times

    Canvas just doesn't sketch a sufficiently vivid portrait.

  • Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic

    Canvas is worth seeing for the acting, but the disease-of-the-week conventions and hackneyed visuals pretty well knock the wind out of its sails.

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  • paul s


    An intimate tale of mental illness and its effects on a family, Canvas has some holes, but the restrained performances of Pantalione and Gay-Harden kept me very interested. Harden was wonderful; one moment bubbling over with joy and then the next filled with uncertainty, showing her… More