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Winter Passing

Sometimes you go looking for something you want. . . and find what you need.

2006 · 1h 38m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Adam Rapp

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Overview

Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.

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42%
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Rotten

Midway through, Rapp loses momentum, failing to hone in on just what kind of movie he wants to make, and Winter Passing languishes in that no-man's land between tiny, meandering, indie drama and plotted, pointed family melodrama.

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

This flawed drama about a self-destructive young actress and her reclusive novelist father has its rewards, mainly in some good performances.

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

There are intriguing actors and ideas here, but only occasionally do they combine with convincing force.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh

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.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

It's a disturbing movie, particularly the first half, and one not easily digested.

Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News

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