Amelia Warner, Amy Madigan, Anthony Rapp
A dramatic comedy that charts the fractious reunion of an estranged father and daughter. Struggling twentysomething actress Reese Holden has been promised $100,000 by book editor Lori Lansky if Reese ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 16, 2006
Stats: 1,166 reviews
Winter Passing is a typical indie-darling movie. Oddball characters, quirky sense of humour, actors speaking in calm hushed voices. It works due to the talent on display. Harris is, as usual, excellent. He captures disturbed genius very well. Ferrel is also very endearing in a mo...( read more)
Renting this movie was a mistake. Come to think of it, a lot of movies with Zooey Deschanel on the cover end up as regretful choices. With few exceptions, sadly.
This one started out a little slow. Once the main character made it back to her father's house it picked up a bit. Will Ferrell, Ed Harris, and Zooey Deschanel do an awesome job. Loved the open mike night scene with Ferrell. This movie was almost like watching a live ver...( read more)
Reese Holden: "I just can't believe this is the same man who told his six-year-old daughter that Christmas was a Republican capitalistic conspiracy created by the Hallmark Corporation and that, if Jesus were alive today he'd be down in Nicaragua rallying the Sandinistas. Grace...( read more)
Kind of depressing and uninteresting story about self-indulgent and "suffering" artists. Whatever.
This movie is my all time fav. I love indie films and Zooey is the Queen of Indie!!
This is a really good dark and funny movies. It really should have gotten more hype than what it did. It's worth watching and I feel most people will be shocked by it.
This is the kind of movie routinely dismissed as too slow and quiet by those who don't know it is more exciting to listen than to hear. full review
Makes too many of the same rookie filmmaker mistakes which keep similar films with smaller budgets and lesser known casts from even getting a minor theatrical release full review
The film delivers nothing more than a familiar Sundance-style brand of stagy, small-scale drama. full review
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