Given its stellar cast -- including Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep and Glenn Close -- and source material, it's hard not to think it should be better.
CommentOct 23, 2009
Evening (2007)
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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 124
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 90
Beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull, Evening is a collossal waste of a talented cast.
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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 23
Beautifully filmed, but decidedly dull, Evening is a collossal waste of a talented cast.
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Movie Info
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: Evening unites a stellar cast, and is based on the beloved novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the screen by Ms. Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning... [More]
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Running Time: 1 hr. 57 min.
In Theaters: Jun 29, 2007 Wide
Box Office:$12.4M
Cast
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Claire Danes
(Ann Grant) -
Toni Collette
(Nina Mars) -
Vanessa Redgrave
(Ann Lord) -
Patrick Wilson
(Harris Arden) -
Hugh Dancy
(Buddy Wittenborn) -
Natasha Richardson
(Constance Haverford) -
Mamie Gummer
(Lila Wittenborn) -
Eileen Atkins
(The Night Nurse) -
Meryl Streep
(Lila Ross) -
Glenn Close
(Mrs. Wittenborn) -
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
(Luc) -
Barry Bostwick
(Mr. Wittenborn)
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Evening
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EVENING SCENE: BUDDY'S NOTE
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REVIEWS FOR EVENING
Antiseptic bourgeois swank
Aug 27, 2009
What's the difference between slasher films and chick flicks? In slasher films they suffer less, and they die quicker. Evening, bless its banal heart, is a chick flick in all its fatuous glory.
Feb 2, 2009
Frankly I could watch Danes, Collette, Streep, Close, Richardson, etc., as they go food shopping, which just goes to show what a bunch of great actors can do for a fairly conventional tear-jerker.
Oct 25, 2007
Strong cast is best part of tragic romantic drama.
Oct 22, 2007
The performances are oddly muted, as if the screenplay refuses to allow a fine cast full rein. But those who loved the book can be assured that it has been translated faithfully enough to the screen.
Sep 21, 2007
An old lady takes a long time to die in this po-faced literary effort as a bed-ridden Redgrave looks back to the golden summer when her young self (Danes) found love.
Sep 21, 2007
Some big names have been assembled for this old-fashioned "woman's picture" about thwarted expectations and lifelong regrets.
Sep 21, 2007
I am against the exploitation of women for sentimental screen purposes (Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart). But what can you do? Here they moon and croon across a time divide.
Sep 21, 2007
An affected and overwrought adaptation of Susan Minot's novel about a dying woman's memories of a complicated romantic incident in her youth.
Sep 21, 2007
Evening is a film about regrets that doesn't say an awful lot, but somehow holds your attention with the scenes between Redgrave and Streep sure to bring a tear to your eye - or at least your mum's.
Sep 21, 2007
Dull. It's hard to engage with the characters, the themes are underdeveloped and the tone is flat as the waters lapping the Wittenborn beach.
Sep 21, 2007
Adapting from Susan Minot's bestseller, Hungarian director Lajos Koltai's (Fateless) pulls together a formidable cast - Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Toni Collette - but then leaves them to wade through a sickly stew.
Sep 21, 2007
Evening is a slow burner, so slow in fact the credits roll before it ever gets going.
Sep 21, 2007
It's a very odd film that can discuss heart-blackening guilt, loveless marriage, pain and regret only to taper off into a dry-eyed ending.
Sep 21, 2007
The film disintegrates into an indulgent succession of intense, fawning exchanges that overwhelm Minot's thin and monotonous tale.
Sep 21, 2007
Recycling ideas and characters from 250 years of romantic literature without adding any new ones of its own, Evening is like dining with Jane Austen and Barbara Cartland and not being allowed to get down from the table.
Sep 21, 2007
This multi-generational chick flick may be blessed with a stellar cast but unfortunately errs on the pretentious side.
Sep 21, 2007
Emotionally unengaging, overlong and frequently dull drama, despite the best efforts of its talented cast.
Sep 20, 2007
An astounding cast and high production values make this film worth seeing, even as turns into a girly melodrama.
Jul 28, 2007
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