Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

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Wendy and Lucy

Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, John Robinson, Wally Dalton

Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Orego...( read more  read more... )n, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy.

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  • September 2, 2009
    Road movie about a down on her luck woman whose car breaks down in Oregon on her way to Alaska. Michele Williams gives an intimate, heartbreaking performance as Wendy, the woman who continues to experience one setback after another with only her faithful dog, Lucy, to keep her c...( read more)ompany. Film's low key, deliberate pace may bore some. Patient viewers, however, will be rewarded by its quiet charm.
  • June 11, 2009
    It's not going to be for everyone, but hey that's their loss. Michelle Williams proves once again that she's one to be reckoned with. A tale of loneliness and desperation. Check it out
  • May 21, 2009
    It would seem that this is the type of movie Nicolas Cage (as Charlie Kaufman) was talking about in Adaptation, when he asked Bryan Cox (as Robert McKee) for help with the script he was writing in which 'nothing much happens'. That's fine if you have interesting characters and in...( read more)telligent dialogue to keep you interested (Lost in Translation comes to mind), but Wendy and Lucy really doesn't have either. It stars Michelle Williams as Wendy, a young woman who has left her home in Indiana to light out for Alaska, but her car breaks down somewhere in Oregon. Shortly thereafter, her dog Lucy goes missing, and she spends the rest of the movie trying to get her car repaired and find her missing dog. That's pretty much it, except for the scene where she takes a blanket and goes off to spend the night in the woods. 'Something' bad happens to her there, but I can't say for sure what it is since the screen is completely dark for the duration of the event. You can hear a man mumbling something, but I couldn't make it out, and I also couldn't read the subtitles because they were Dutch (I think). The film is very realistic, almost painfully so. In that sense, it reminded me of Frozen River, which I didn't care much for either. As I said in my review of that film, I want a film to have a certain level of realism, but when it's so real I could look out my window and see the same thing, that's not very appealing to me. Michelle Williams gives a nice performance, but I don't think it's Oscar-worthy, as some people have suggested. If you're a huge fan of hers, you might want to see this. Otherwise, I'd suggest giving it a pass.
  • May 8, 2009
    small, spare and heart breaking film. michelle williams is great. dog lovers beware :'(
  • March 28, 2009
    A well shot but a bit underdeveloped film about living on the edge of society. Michelle Williams does a fine job underplaying the strong willed Wendy character.
  • December 18, 2009
    Michelle Williams gives a solid but understated performance in the role of Wendy, a woman whose plans fall apart when her car breaks down in a small town on her way to Alaska. Lucy the dog, was a gem.

    This is a quiet and lazy paced film. I was hoping that it would evoke more e...( read more)motion but it just wasn't there for me.
  • December 5, 2009
    There's something weird about this one, dunno, guess i didn't saw the 'art' on it...
  • November 27, 2009
    movies show to the wendy and lucy for story this.
  • November 27, 2009
    a simple story concerning a young lady and her dog, driving toalaska, but breaks down in a small town, sleeping rough in the car,with troubles mounting up, concerning her dog, and, car. a low budget effort and staring a younger michelle williams, in a early role for her, she is g...( read more)ood int his, and diection is interesting, the town like most indies looks dead and needs life, agood little effort
  • November 18, 2009
    what a boring movie. no thrill at all.

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