Fresh
There will never be another Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor, but Hollywood may have found a new Lee Remick in Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Overview
Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.
Director and cast
- James Ponsoldt Director
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Kate Hannah
- Aaron Paul as Charlie Hannah
- Octavia Spencer as Jenny
- Nick Offerman as Dave Davies
- Megan Mullally as Principal Barnes
- Mary Kay Place as Rochelle
- Kyle Gallner as Owen Hannah
- Mackenzie Davis as Millie
- Bree Turner as Freda
- Patti Allison as Rocky
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Winstead and Paul make their characters feel like flesh and blood, not stereotypical Lost Weekenders. Their love is as real as their future is shaky. And that's the film's great tragedy.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
The camera work is handheld and jittery, reflecting Kate's often wobbly state of mind, and the character's decidedly nonglam wardrobe, minimal makeup and charm-free home feel honest and right.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
Winstead, a relative newcomer, handily carries this slender film.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Fresh
It's an addiction-and-recovery movie without the usual side-effect of wallowing melodrama.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
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