Tully (2000)
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81% of critics liked it
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76% of users liked it
(1,165 ratings)
Taking home both the audience prize for Best Director as well as the critics' prize for Best Film, writer-director Hilary Birmingham was the toast of the 2000 L.A. Independent Film Festival with this slice-of-life drama about a pair of motherless young men and their relationships with women.… More Taking home both the audience prize for Best Director as well as the critics' prize for Best Film, writer-director Hilary Birmingham was the toast of the 2000 L.A. Independent Film Festival with this slice-of-life drama about a pair of motherless young men and their relationships with women. Tully Jr. (Anson Mount) and Earl (Glenn Fitzgerald) live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an off-again, on-again relationship with April (Catherine Kellner), a stripper in town. When their childhood friend Ella (Julianne Nicholson) returns to town to start a veterinary practice, however, Tully falls for her -- although the townsfolk have their doubts that he could ever commit to one woman. Birmingham based her film on a short story by author Tom McNeal; before Tully, the director cut her teeth producing PBS documentaries. Tully would go on to show at festivals in Toronto, Canada, and Melbourne, Australia. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
- Directed By
- Hilary Birmingham
- Written By
- Matt Drake, Hilary Birmingham
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Nov 1, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- Small Planet
Critic Reviews
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Mary Brennan, Seattle Times
The movie resonates with a rare and genuine sweetness.
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Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Flawed but promising.
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Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Watching Tully reminded me of a time when calling a movie 'little' was a compliment, a way of saying a director had found ways to locate his movie in a world that seemed entirely real.
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
At turns heartbreaking and heart-stirring.
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Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
There's certainly nothing objectionable about Tully, but there's nothing remarkable either. It resides in that cinematic middle ground of not-bad, not-great, just okay.
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Cast
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Anson Mount
as Tully Coates
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Julianne Nicholson
as Ella Smalley
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Glenn Fitzgerald
as Earl Coates
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Catherine Kellner
as April Reece
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John Diehl
as Mal "Mac" MacAvoy
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Natalie Canerday
as Claire
