As I Lay Dying

Millennium Entertainment | Release Date: October 11, 2013

6.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Ratings

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ThegodfathersonNov 2, 2013

(It took a long time for me to watch this film in the Tribeca Film Festival. So its a late review) James Franco brings his tactics altogether in As I Lay Dying. First of all, Franco makes a beautiful and reflective film that absorbs power and(It took a long time for me to watch this film in the Tribeca Film Festival. So its a late review) James Franco brings his tactics altogether in As I Lay Dying. First of all, Franco makes a beautiful and reflective film that absorbs power and danger. It's a little slow but once the drama pumps it begins. As I Lay Dying is one of Franco's greatest films yet In my opinion. The acting also done by James is astonishing and breathtaking. This is a must watch movie with forgivable pacing flaws. Hard, Gritty and Powerful- As I Lay Dying is a must watch for anyone.… Expand

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LeZeeJun 9, 2014

I always wondered why James Franco was never vastly recognised as a film director than an actor. If you ask me, I say he was always at his best who mostly pick biographies and dramas. This movie is one of the year's widely undernoticed andI always wondered why James Franco was never vastly recognised as a film director than an actor. If you ask me, I say he was always at his best who mostly pick biographies and dramas. This movie is one of the year's widely undernoticed and underappreciated. As always, that leads me to hate critics who divert the movie fans from this movie a watch.

This was one of the best dramas I had seen that set in the rural of the early 1900s. About the family of brothers and sister who lost their mother. As being in a remote village they struggle to travel nearby burial ground that is days away to reach. So theirs quest starts to take twists and turns among siblings and the mother nature. Each of them has individual hidden secrets that not related to their mother's death, but as a character. One after another letting us know theirs another face till the adventures ends in peace.

I really liked this movie. The tone of the setting of that era was so perfect. Feels like they all went for a century back to the original time to make the movie so accurately. It was based on the novel by the same name. Might be a fictional work, though, depicts the true lifestyle and transporting system of those times. No fights, no guns, a purely family based drama which might be a little brutal in parts, but kind of realistic according to that era. Don't miss this movie, a movie based on the old era is not frequent nowadays. Movies like this now and then really give a good opportunity to the modern people to know the forgotten culture. Hope you all realise what I am saying about the movie and its material.… Expand

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geedupNov 5, 2013

This is a tough story to tell. Faulkner's painting of this story is very dynamic in the book. So I was very interested to see this film. And, is a fairly interesting visually and the characters are well casted with interesting depictions. ItThis is a tough story to tell. Faulkner's painting of this story is very dynamic in the book. So I was very interested to see this film. And, is a fairly interesting visually and the characters are well casted with interesting depictions. It starts slowly but Franco eventually gets to the struggling, anagonizing, painful feeling Faulkner artfully portrays. With a Grapes of Wrath feeling the viewer becomes a passenger almost seemlessly. It is unfortunate most people will not see this film due to the lack of publicity. But worth a watch if you cannot read a book-otherwise get the book.… Expand

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DrBlahBlahJun 28, 2020

Dear Franco, please stop ruining the classics. Faulkner and McCarthy deserve better. Thank you.

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