Bartleby

Name: Bartleby
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: May 24, 2002
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Crispin Glover, David Paymer

2002

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Outrider Pictures | Release Date: May 24, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Crispin Glover, David Paymer

Summary: A modern adaptation of Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener."

Director: Jonathan Parker

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 83 min

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Dana Stevens

Mr. Parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its essence, composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor, or an absurdist workplace sitcom, as if a team of French surrealists had been put in charge of "The Drew Carey Show." Read full review

David Edelstein

The neat thing about Jonathan Parker's modern-day Bartleby (Outsider Pictures) is that it brings out all the vaudeville undercurrents in Melville's dark tale and turns it into a surreal tragi-sitcom for our own era. Read full review

Charles Savage

Though this film can be clumsy, its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial. Read full review

Empire Nick Dawson

A fable that leaves us unenlightened at the end, it is a curious, worthy failure. Read full review

Ron Wells

Oh, boy. This is not unlike watching one of the movies Jerry Lewis made after that concentration camp/clown epic nearly destroyed his career and his mind. Read full review

Marrit Ingman

Comes across as stiff and uneven. Read full review

Jessica Winter

The loud, musty production design -- steeped in lime greens and tangerine oranges -- smells of recirculated air and enervated ambition, but unfortunately, so does the movie itself. Read full review

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