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The High Cost of Living

2011 · 1h 32m · PG-13 Drama
Directed by Deborah Chow

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Overview

The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...

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53%
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Rotten

So artistically well-intentioned and earnest in its ambitions that you can almost forgive the banality of its every scene.

Paul Brunick, New York Times
Fresh

Movies often make too much of that truism, but surprisingly committed performances from actors like these can still make it feel like something meaningful.

Eric Hynes, Time Out New York
Rotten

Ridiculously implausible yet still predictable.

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
Fresh

Chow and her actors are so gifted that this fragile situation escapes contrivance to become a poignant, romantic and deftly nuanced revelation of character and emotions.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

An already iffy premise is badly served by a film that is tonally jarring.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

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