Starting Out in the Evening

PG-13 6.9
2007 1 hr 51 min Drama

Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.

  • Cast:
    Frank Langella , Lauren Ambrose , Adrian Lester , Lili Taylor , Jeff McCarthy , Michael Cumpsty , Jessica Hecht

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Reviews

Pluskylang
2007/11/23

Great Film overall

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Intcatinfo
2007/11/24

A Masterpiece!

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Dirtylogy
2007/11/25

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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Geraldine
2007/11/26

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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