Jolene (Blu-ray) R
A life between the exit signs.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 26, 2011
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Momentum
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jessica Chastain, Dermont Mulroney, Michael Vartan, Chazz Palminteri, Denise Richards & Dermot Mulroney | |
Performer: | Rupert Friend & Theresa Russell | |
Directed by | Dan Ireland | |
Screenwriting by | Dennis Yares | |
Composition by | Harry Gregson-Williams | |
Director of Photography: | Claudio Rocha |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/4 --
Jolene's main themes, including the manipulation of youth, the fragility of love, and the suppression of individuality, try to carry the wonky dialogue into complex territory.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
Ms. Chastain digs deep. Surrendering to her character's smoky voice-over and disastrous judgment, the actress finds pockets of soul in a role that's part Jessica Rabbit, part Marilyn Monroe.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Chastain proves near-heroic embodying Jolene's innate strength and incremental wisdom. Yet she also makes us understand how the heroine's wobbly resistance to manipulative characters is overwhelmed time and again.
Seattle Times
Rating: C --
Cruelly, the display of sorrow never takes command, with most of the film an unsatisfactory soap opera that never seizes an illuminating essence.
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BrianOrndorf.com
It's a mediocre movie with a very nice central performance.
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The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Rating: 3/5 --
More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, "Jolene" remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 0/4 --
So bad it's almost (but not quite) good, Dan Ireland's Jolene is an unusually elaborate and excruciatingly long vanity production...
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New York Post
Product Description:
Author E.L. Doctorow's acclaimed short story JOLENE: A LIFE gets the big screen treatment in MRS. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT's director Dan Ireland's independent drama about life on the road. Jolene (Jessica Chastain) is a red-haired wanderer who isn't content to call one place home for any expended stretch of time. Setting off to explore the outside world at age fifteen, the free-spirited teen embarks on a decade-long cross-country of adventure which finds her crossing the paths of everyone from a firebrand Texan (Dermont Mulroney) who steals her heart and destroys her marriage to his wealthy fundamentalist nephew (Michael Vartan), to an ex-mobster (Chazz Palminteri) attempting to make good in Las Vegas. Denise Richards, Rupert Friend, and Theresa Russell co-star in a film adapted from the story by screenwriter Dennis Yares.