A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 19 wins & 35 nominations total
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Did you know
- TriviaDanai Gurira's feature-film debut as "Zainab."
- GoofsIn New York airport, the flight was announced as "flight to Syria", although it should actually name the airport (Damascus), not the country. But more importantly, there is no direct non-stop flight from New York to Syria.
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Prof. Walter Vale: We are not helpless children!
- Crazy creditsBaldwin's L2 grand piano
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Thomas McCarthy's 2nd film after the wonderful "Station Agent" is equally good, if not better. I can't recommend Richard Jenkins' performance any higher here. He plays a widowed professor who is drifting through life rather aimlessly until he visits his New York apartment and finds there are two people squatting there. I won't give away anything else, except to say that it'll be a shame if this film flies under the radar. Jenkins is a character actor that everyone recognizes, but that few of us know. Here he occupies the first third of the film practically alone, and reminds us in moments of the Jack Nicholson character from "About Schmidt" with his dry humor that is on display for his crabby piano teacher.
Don't you just love watching an actor up there alone who keeps you spellbound in a subtle way? That's how this movie starts, and gradually we come to meet the couple in Jenkins' apartment, and the mother of one of them. The movie flows economically and with much care, but by the end it creeps up on us and makes us feel glad along the way as well as making us pause and reflect on the state of our world.
Lovely, lovely movie.
Don't you just love watching an actor up there alone who keeps you spellbound in a subtle way? That's how this movie starts, and gradually we come to meet the couple in Jenkins' apartment, and the mother of one of them. The movie flows economically and with much care, but by the end it creeps up on us and makes us feel glad along the way as well as making us pause and reflect on the state of our world.
Lovely, lovely movie.
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- Sep 18, 2007
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- Du Khách
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- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,427,089
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $86,488
- Apr 13, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $18,197,518
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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