Jolene (Director's Cut)
A life between the exit signs.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 4, 2012
- 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: 1/5 --
One minute a guy's making Jolene patently false promises, the next she's getting sodomized on her wedding night.
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Time Out
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
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: 3/4 --
The movie has been through as many hurdles getting here as dear, sweet Jolene, but sometimes the most engaging movies are the ones worth waiting for.
Observer
Rating: 4.2112/10 --
Vapid, convoluted, tedious and too episodic despite Jessica Chastain's charismatic performance as the seductive, wounded, insecure and lonely Jolene.
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NYC Movie Guru
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
Based on an E.L. Doctorow short story, Jolene is an apt example of how stories about women who are in abusive relationships can be turned into sexual exploitation.
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Film Journal International
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.
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