The Another Earth Movie Trailer has premiered. Mike Cahill‘s Another Earth (2011) stars Brit Marling, Williams Mapother, Jordan Baker, Flint Beverage, and Robin Taylor. Another Earth‘s plot synopsis: “Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.” Rhoda is brave enough to seek out the person she hurt and whose life she changed forever yet doesn’t have the courage to tell that person what she did. I bet this changes at some point during Another Earth as the guilt of what she has done eats away at her. The back-drop of two Earths is pretty cool plot element.
- 4/23/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Film Review: 'Looking for an Echo'
'Echo' Finds High Notes / Doo-wop-themed drama manages a certain poignancy depite its blatant manipulation
By David Hunter
Martin Davidson, director of "Eddie and the Cruisers" and "The Lords of Flatbush", takes us on another nostalgic cruise in the doo-wop-themed "Looking for an Echo". His angle is to set the story in present times, with Armand Assante starring as Vince, who once upon a time fronted a local band that had a few hits and then faded away.
A Regent Entertainment release with no enticements for viewers under 40, except perhaps the presence of likable heartthrob Edoardo Ballerini ("The Last Days of Disco"), "Echo" is a scattershot success at best and deliriously pumped up with its own sense of importance at worst.
Bartender, part-time musician and bus-riding lonely heart, Vince is depressed and not much of a talker. He's never gotten over the death of his wife 10 years ago, and pays close attention to his three children, including two grown sons and a daughter suffering from leukemia. A chip off the old block, Anthony (Ballerini) is a musician and unabashed fan of Vince's old group Vinnie and the Dreamers. Older brother Tommy (David Vadim) is a New York cop with a mild mean streak.
It's through frequent visits to the hospital that Vince resurrects his romantic nature with the enthusiastically available Joanne (Diane Venora), one of the nurses attending his seriously ill daughter, Tina (Christy Romano).
With a little help from Anthony, who croons Dad's biggest hit, "This I Swear", at a rock show they drop by for, Vince and Joanne have a long and successful first date.
Approaching 50 -- and passing it during the course of the movie -- Vince is bitter about the long-ago days when he fronted a band of "losers" that got shafted out of the big bucks. But with Joanne drawing him out of his funk, Vince goes along on a trip to Atlantic City, N.J., with former Dreamers bandmates, including Vic (Joe Grifasi). They have a swell time, Tina's condition goes from worse to better, and Anthony composes a new song that marks the passing of the teeny-bopper musical mojo from one generation to the next.
Executive produced by Steve Tisch ("Forrest Gump") and featuring music wrangling by Kenny Vance -- of Jay and the Americans fame as well as the creator of soundtracks for many films, including "American Hot Wax" and "Eddie and the Cruisers" -- "Echo" is thoroughly manipulative. But Assante and Venora, in fine performances, are well-matched, while the common experience of taking years to rebound from life's disappointments and tragedies leads to a warm, heartfelt atmosphere with the comfortableness of a slow air by one of the a cappella groups that inspired the filmmakers.
LOOKING FOR AN ECHO
Regent Entertainment
Steve Tisch/Paul Kurta
Credits: Director: Martin Davidson; Screenwriters: Jeffrey Goldenberg, Robert Held, Martin Davidson; Producers: Paul Kurta, Martin Davidson; Executive producer: Steve Tisch; Director of photography: Charles Minsky; Editor: Jerrold Ludwig; Costume designer: Sandy Davidson; Music: Kenny Vance. Cast: Vince: Armand Assante; Joanne: Diane Venora; Anthony: Edoardo Ballerini; Tina: Christy Romano; Vic: Joe Grifasi; Tommie: David Vadim. MPAA rating: R. Running time - 97 minutes. Color/stereo.
By David Hunter
Martin Davidson, director of "Eddie and the Cruisers" and "The Lords of Flatbush", takes us on another nostalgic cruise in the doo-wop-themed "Looking for an Echo". His angle is to set the story in present times, with Armand Assante starring as Vince, who once upon a time fronted a local band that had a few hits and then faded away.
A Regent Entertainment release with no enticements for viewers under 40, except perhaps the presence of likable heartthrob Edoardo Ballerini ("The Last Days of Disco"), "Echo" is a scattershot success at best and deliriously pumped up with its own sense of importance at worst.
Bartender, part-time musician and bus-riding lonely heart, Vince is depressed and not much of a talker. He's never gotten over the death of his wife 10 years ago, and pays close attention to his three children, including two grown sons and a daughter suffering from leukemia. A chip off the old block, Anthony (Ballerini) is a musician and unabashed fan of Vince's old group Vinnie and the Dreamers. Older brother Tommy (David Vadim) is a New York cop with a mild mean streak.
It's through frequent visits to the hospital that Vince resurrects his romantic nature with the enthusiastically available Joanne (Diane Venora), one of the nurses attending his seriously ill daughter, Tina (Christy Romano).
With a little help from Anthony, who croons Dad's biggest hit, "This I Swear", at a rock show they drop by for, Vince and Joanne have a long and successful first date.
Approaching 50 -- and passing it during the course of the movie -- Vince is bitter about the long-ago days when he fronted a band of "losers" that got shafted out of the big bucks. But with Joanne drawing him out of his funk, Vince goes along on a trip to Atlantic City, N.J., with former Dreamers bandmates, including Vic (Joe Grifasi). They have a swell time, Tina's condition goes from worse to better, and Anthony composes a new song that marks the passing of the teeny-bopper musical mojo from one generation to the next.
Executive produced by Steve Tisch ("Forrest Gump") and featuring music wrangling by Kenny Vance -- of Jay and the Americans fame as well as the creator of soundtracks for many films, including "American Hot Wax" and "Eddie and the Cruisers" -- "Echo" is thoroughly manipulative. But Assante and Venora, in fine performances, are well-matched, while the common experience of taking years to rebound from life's disappointments and tragedies leads to a warm, heartfelt atmosphere with the comfortableness of a slow air by one of the a cappella groups that inspired the filmmakers.
LOOKING FOR AN ECHO
Regent Entertainment
Steve Tisch/Paul Kurta
Credits: Director: Martin Davidson; Screenwriters: Jeffrey Goldenberg, Robert Held, Martin Davidson; Producers: Paul Kurta, Martin Davidson; Executive producer: Steve Tisch; Director of photography: Charles Minsky; Editor: Jerrold Ludwig; Costume designer: Sandy Davidson; Music: Kenny Vance. Cast: Vince: Armand Assante; Joanne: Diane Venora; Anthony: Edoardo Ballerini; Tina: Christy Romano; Vic: Joe Grifasi; Tommie: David Vadim. MPAA rating: R. Running time - 97 minutes. Color/stereo.
- 11/14/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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