Fay Grim

Fay Grim
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  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 22, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Magnolia Home Ent

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User Ratings: 22,796
Rating: C+ -- A disappointing zany character-driven comedy directed by the once promising indie cult auteur Hal Hartley. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 16, 2014
Rating: B -- The nicest surprise of the movie is how long and how well Fay Grim works as a contemporary screwball comedy, a genre from which Hartley's diffuse yet severe sense of irony would seem to disbar him. Full Review
Nick's Flick Picks
Jan 3, 2008
While deftly working the visual tropes of the spy-thriller genre, FAY GRIM carries them into the realm of the absurd....Beneath its mockery, the movie is a commentary on the rampant paranoia that grips the post-9/11 world.
New York Times
May 18, 2007
The involved backstory and Hartley's own generic music both prove burdensome; the main attraction is the cast's amusing way of handling Hartley's mannerist dialogue and conceits. Full Review
Chicago Reader
May 25, 2007
Fay's intercontinental quest for the missing, maybe dead Henry is also a search for his now fragmented writings, whose meaning is both constantly evolving and forever evaporating. Full Review
Little White Lies
Feb 19, 2018
Rating: C+ -- There's a thin line between goofing irreverently on the maddeningly convoluted nature of spy thrillers and actually being a muddled mess, and Fay Grim crosses it constantly during its deadly second hour. Full Review
AV Club
May 19, 2007
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Despite its imperfections, Fay Grim is worth seeing for Posey's and Goldblum's performances and particularly for the witty, literate dialogue.
USA Today
May 18, 2007

Product Description:

Hal Hartley's 1997 film HENRY FOOL tells the story of Simon Grim (James Urbaniak), a garbage collector in Queens whose burgeoning talent as a poet is spurred on to greatness by Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan), a failed novelist with a shady past. Though the film gave Hartley art-house success, it was an unlikely candidate for sequeldom--let alone one that's a spy thriller--but, years later, that what he's given us with FAY GRIM.

Henry has been missing for seven years, and Simon's sister, Fay (Parker Posey), is a single parent raising her and Henry's 14-year-old son, Ned (Liam Aiken), in Woodside, Queens. Simon is in prison for helping Henry escape from the law, but Fay is given a chance to spring him when she is approached by CIA agent Fulbright (Jeff Goldblum), who asks her to go Paris to obtain Henry's "confessions," a series of notebooks he filled with international political secrets. Once in Paris, Fay is preyed upon by operatives other than those she is meant to deal with, and things don't go as planned. An unwitting pawn in a complex international scheme set in motion by her missing husband, Fay finds herself traveling to Turkey for answers. Fans of Hartley's work will be pleased with this oddball take on the espionage genre, in which a permanently tilted camera mirrors the loopy proceedings. Though Posey's Fay is a stereotypical "clueless American abroad" in designer duds, and her adventure seems at first to be a silly game, bodies begin piling up, and the tale gathers real weight. FAY GRIM is a unique addition to Hartley's singular body of work, and a treat for indie film fans regardless of their familiarity with HENRY FOOL.

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  • Sales Rank: 23,996
  • UPC: 876964000857
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