Junkhearts (2011)
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60% of critics liked it
(10 reviews) -
42% want to see it
(113 ratings)
A handful of lost souls turn to alcohol and drugs to cope with their emotional agony in this powerful British drama. Frank (Eddie Marsan) is a middle-aged man whose years in the military have left him with a war raging inside his mind. Frank drinks heavily to blot out his Post Traumatic Stress… More A handful of lost souls turn to alcohol and drugs to cope with their emotional agony in this powerful British drama. Frank (Eddie Marsan) is a middle-aged man whose years in the military have left him with a war raging inside his mind. Frank drinks heavily to blot out his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and one day he sees a homeless teenage girl, Lynette (Candese Reid), being accosted outside the liquor store he frequents. Troubled by her circumstances, Frank buys Lynette some food and later offers to let her sleep at his shabby apartment. The two soon strike up a friendship, but Lynette's drug addiction makes her difficult to live with, as does her relationship with her short-tempered boyfriend Danny (Tom Sturridge). Meanwhile, Christine (Romola Garai) looks like a happy and successful woman on the surface, but while she has a respectable career in business, her life as a single mother has filled her with guilt and loneliness, and she turns to drugs and sex to fill the emotional void. Junkhearts was the first feature film from director Tinge Krishnan. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Tinge Krishnan
- Written By
- Frank Simon
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
Critic Reviews
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Guy Lodge, Variety
The moral of this structurally addled urban drama could be summed up more simply: It's generally not a good idea to let homeless addicts move into your apartment.
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Alistair Harkness, Scotsman
There's a point at which good performances stop being enough to excuse dreary storytelling, shoddy execution and a general lack of ideas, and ... Junkhearts reaches it fairly early on.
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Lisa Giles-Keddie, Real.com
Aptly named as the characters purge their tickers in their quest for redemption. Expect another bleak tale of inner-city hardship and self pity ...
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Derek Malcolm, This is London
More sincere than sophisticated.
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Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
This is a tough film, and it isn't perfect: it works best when Marsan is on the screen, and we are inside his agonised day-to-day reality.
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