Close to You

Name: Close to You
Genre: Drama
Released: August 16, 2024
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 55

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: August 16, 2024 | R

Summary: Sam (Elliot Page), who moved to Toronto from his small town on Lake Ontario, Canada finally decides to return home to visit his family for his dad’s birthday. On his journey, he has a chance encounter with a friend from high school (Hillary Baack) that sparks old feelings. It is on this trip that Sam can finally confront long-buriedSam (Elliot Page), who moved to Toronto from his small town on Lake Ontario, Canada finally decides to return home to visit his family for his dad’s birthday. On his journey, he has a chance encounter with a friend from high school (Hillary Baack) that sparks old feelings. It is on this trip that Sam can finally confront long-buried feelings, a first love that was never properly resolved, his relationship with his family, and a newfound love and confidence in himself.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Aug 30, 2024

Close To You is ultra-real, ultra-important, ultra-fascinating, and ultra-recommended. Read full review

Tara Brady

Aug 29, 2024

Page’s closeness to the material grafts a fascinating biographical dimension to this intimate drama. The story may lack conflict and clout. But it’s great to see Page back on the big screen. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Aug 1, 2024

Close to You is rife with real emotion, but the gap between vulnerability and meaning keeps everyone at arm’s length. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Aug 1, 2024

While we understand Sam’s back story and present situation, we too rarely get a sense of who he is when not struggling against misunderstanding and harsh weather. Read full review

Screen Rant Kate Bove

Aug 16, 2024

While Page’s beautifully nuanced and searingly felt performance will stick with me, the movie as a whole feels like something I watched through a window myself — one with frosted-over panes that, try as I might, I couldn’t scrape clean for a clearer, closer view of the story playing out on my screen. Read full review

Rex Reed

Aug 13, 2024

Part of the problem with Close to You is Hillary Baack, who plays Katherine. Miscast and inexperienced, she is not up to Page’s standards and mumbles so incoherently that whole scenes clumsily pass by without clarity. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Aug 1, 2024

As a movie, Close to You feels too unfocused, a major win and a welcome return for Page yet an opportunity squandered. Read full review

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