After Words

Name: After Words
Genre: Drama
Released: August 21, 2015
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 35

2015

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Level 33 Entertainment | Release Date: August 21, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: Jane (Marcia Gay Harden), a bookish introvert, loses her job as a librarian and spirals downward into depression. The library and all of its books gave her life a meaning. Jane contemplates suicide and decides to see something beautiful before she dies, traveling to tropical, picturesque Costa Rica. Once there she meets a younger man namedJane (Marcia Gay Harden), a bookish introvert, loses her job as a librarian and spirals downward into depression. The library and all of its books gave her life a meaning. Jane contemplates suicide and decides to see something beautiful before she dies, traveling to tropical, picturesque Costa Rica. Once there she meets a younger man named Juan (Óscar Jaenada), a charming, charismatic tour guide who makes his living off the many single female tourists who come to town. Together, they embark on an adventure into the heart of Costa Rica. The awkward pair experience a transformational journey where Juan reads his first book and Jane comes to appreciate what "Pura Vida" ("Pure Life") has to offer in a way that may change her plans to "end it all" in paradise. [Level 33 Entertainment]… Expand

Director: Juan Feldman

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Steve Davis

Aug 19, 2015

Predictable but never coy about it, After Words speaks to the fateful connection that sometimes occurs between two people under the most improbable circumstances. Read full review

Rex Reed

Aug 20, 2015

After Words is part adventure, part love story, part travelogue, and all as synthetic as rayon. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Aug 19, 2015

Director Juan Feldman trusts his actors to charm us, which they do — up to a point. But there’s only so much that can be wrung out of this spinster-meets-exotic stud, “Summertime”-lite affair. Read full review

Randy Cordova

Aug 20, 2015

Pat and silly, the movie offers a wheezy moral that a buttoned-up American just needs a sensitive Latino and some ethnic cuisine to end the blues. Read full review

Meave Gallagher

Aug 18, 2015

Feldman, having established all his stereotypes, refuses to push them beyond the motions you know they have to go through from the first scene of lonely Jane crying into her cat's fur. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Aug 20, 2015

The good news about After Words is that it offers Marcia Gay Harden a rare film lead. The bad news: Harden's role in this groan-worthy dramedy is so dreary and ill-conceived that even her formidable talents can't bring it to life. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Aug 20, 2015

Ms. Harden is fine in a role that requires little, but her character is a lazy stereotype that ought to make real librarians wince. Read full review

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