Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (2012)
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11% of critics liked it
(9 reviews) -
50% of users liked it
(136 ratings)
Whether trodding the boards for paying audiences or performing at the kitchen table for her theatrical family (mother Diane Salinger, father Jack Heller, uncle David Proval, boarder Harriet Schock) the only place Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) has ever felt truly safe and entirely at home is… More Whether trodding the boards for paying audiences or performing at the kitchen table for her theatrical family (mother Diane Salinger, father Jack Heller, uncle David Proval, boarder Harriet Schock) the only place Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) has ever felt truly safe and entirely at home is onstage. Like so many actors she is not completely sure about the difference between real life and the theater and - as she willingly admits - she really doesn't want to. Stinging from a recent romantic break-up, she retreats to the safety of her parents' ramshackle upstate country house - just 45 minutes from Broadway- where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's non-Jewish fiance (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder, which is presided over by another uncle (Michael Emil). Family secrets, sibling rivalries and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge, but at what cost?
- Directed By
- Henry Jaglom
- Written By
- Henry Jaglom
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Special Interest
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 3, 2012 Limited
- Studio
- Rainbow Releasing
Critic Reviews
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David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
You will either laugh or cringe, depending on your enjoyment of comic melodrama (the kind view) or distaste for overindulged actors (the not-so-kind view).
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Michael Nordine, Village Voice
Altogether, it comes to resemble theater filmed by Paul Greengrass.
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Though Jaglom intends for us to be charmed by show folk, the amateurish performances and perennially misjudged direction wind up portraying them instead as boundlessly needy narcissists.
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David DeWitt, New York Times
The boldness is welcome, the execution awkward.
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Sam Adams, Time Out New York
Self-consciously cribbing from Chekhov by way of Robert Altman, the filmmaker convenes an extended family of stage actors at a decaying country house in New Rochelle, where the Ambien-enhanced emotional pitch lingers north of perpetual hysteria.
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Cast
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Tanna Frederick
as Panda Isaacs
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Judd Nelson
as James Archer, Jimmy
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Diane Salinger
as Vivien Cooper Isaacs
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Jack Heller
as George "Grisha" Isaacs, Grisha Isaacs
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David Proval
as Larry Cooper
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Julie Davis
as Betsy Isaacs
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Harriet Schock
as Sally Brooks
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Mary Crosby
as Sharon
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Sabrina Jaglom
as Judy Cooper
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Simon Jaglom
as Willy Lewis
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Michael Emil
as Uncle Misha
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Linda Carson
as Aunt Karla
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Jack Quaid
as Danny
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Eliza Roberts
as Aunt Kit
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Peter Townend
as Barry Lewis
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Emily Alexander
as Linda Lewis
