Fresh
Rain Li's crisp cinematography gives the entwined stories different but complementary visual styles. Paul Zucker's editing supports each genre then poses fresh questions by leaping from one to the other.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Uncertainty
The choice is theirs.
2009 · 1h 41m · N/A
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Scott McGehee
Overview
Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different directions. A seemingly ordinary July 4th is cleaved in two by the flip of a coin. One path leads them to gentle discoveries about family, loss and each other on a visit to Brooklyn, and the other plunges them into an urban nightmare of pursuit, suspense and murder in Manhattan.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
You either swallow it and learn to love it, or you start running.
Philippe Garnier, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
The film bets everything on an unconventional structure, but fails to do much with it.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
A taut, skillful exercise in cinematic clockwork.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
Excellent New York City location shooting and the ever-reliable Joseph Gordon-Levitt can't salvage this gimmicky, overlong thriller from Scott McGehee and David Siegel...
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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