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Julia

2008 · 2h 18m · R Drama
Directed by Erick Zonca

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Overview

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.

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All reviews
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Charles Bukowski would have loved this foul-mouthed, fiery, reckless woman. Against all odds and common sense, you will, too.

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh

In a sense, it goes to all the places a sensitive character study might have gone, but more dramatically, convincingly and vividly.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

A nerve-wracking thriller with a twisty plot and startling realism.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

This is Zonca's second feature. His first, The Dreamlife of Angels, was extraordinary. Rent that one instead.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten

We never get a good look at her demons, just the havoc they wreak.

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

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