Lakeboat
A Journey To What Might Have Been.
A Journey To What Might Have Been.
Drama
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2000
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A college student befriends various crew members while working a summer internship at sea.
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Details
Runtime:
98 min
Release date:
13 Apr 2000
Country:
CA, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Based on Mamet's experience as a freighter on the Great Lakes while a grad English lit student, Mantegna's screen version is so dramatically inert and artistically shapeless resulting in an uninvolving memory film.
– Emanuel Levy,
Variety,
28 Aug 2006
rotten:
Mamet's fixation on language is ... more effective onstage than onscreen, where the technical and visual requirements distract from the sounds of the words -- the heart of Mamet's work.
– Steven Leigh Morris,
L.A. Weekly,
23 Sep 2002
fresh:
Watching it, you come to understand what it is that Mamet has been true to all these years.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar 2002
fresh:
As drama, it's not much; as a meditation on language and storytelling, it's a treat.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
4 Jan 2002
fresh:
A first-rate movie made from one of David Mamet's lesser plays.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
7 Dec 2001