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Afterglow (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 20  Rotten:9 Average Rating: 6.7/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins

Synopsis: Director-screenwriter Alan Rudolph once again teams with producer Robert Altman (THE PLAYER) for this haunting, funny film starring Nick Nolte and Julie Christie as a married American couple living in Montreal haunted by the memory of their runaway daughter. Plumber Lucky (Nolte) starts... Director-screenwriter Alan Rudolph once again teams with producer Robert Altman (THE PLAYER) for this haunting, funny film starring Nick Nolte and Julie Christie as a married American couple living in Montreal haunted by the memory of their runaway daughter. Plumber Lucky (Nolte) starts an affair with beautiful young client Marianne (Lara Flynn Boyle), who's desperate to have a baby and stifled by her marriage to her narcissistic husband, Jeffrey (Jonny Lee Miller). Meanwhile, Lucky's wife, former B-movie actress Phyllis (Christie), spends her time looking for their daughter on the streets of Montreal and watching videotapes of her old movies. When she inadvertently finds herself meeting Jeffrey and agreeing to spend the weekend with him, the stage is set for an inevitable showdown among all concerned. This beautifully photographed and brilliantly written film is marked by a stunning, Oscar-nominated performance by Christie, who masterfully combines sexuality, class, and world-weary pain. Nolte is also top-notch, again proving himself one of America's most formidable actors. AFTERGLOW is that rare combination in movies: sexy, funny, intelligent, tragic, and deeply moving. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Jay Underwood

Director: Alan Rudolph
Screenwriter: Alan Rudolph
Composer: Mark Isham
Producer: Robert Altman

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 14, 2003

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English

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Cole Smithey
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Alan Rudolph's romantic roundelay sounds a lot more interesting than it plays.

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12/29/06
Michael Dequina
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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
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The still strkingly beautiful Julie Christie renders such as glowing performance that she alone justifies viewing this incurable, frivolous romantic serio-comedy in which she plays B-Movie actress!

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Robin Clifford
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Christie is a revelation, a lilting, charming schemer ... She alone is reason enough to see this flawed and haunting film.

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Eric Lurio
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Will turn off viewers before they arrive at scenes in the final third of this movie that make the previous, tedious parts forgivable.

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07/01/04
Judith Egerton
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12/05/03
Erich Kuersten
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Afterglow plants a cynical seed in its provocative examination of isolation, arbitrary emotional fulfillment, and marital stagnation. Christie dutifully fills the shoes of a wounded woman so convincingly

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05/22/03
Frank Ochieng
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04/12/02
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In exploring the breakdown of two marriages, Alan Rudolph returns to his anatomy of the dynamics of intimacy.

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03/01/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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02/28/02
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