Dopamine

Name: Dopamine
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: October 10, 2003
Duration: 79 min
Rating: 52
Cast: John Livingston

2003

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Sundance Channel Home Entertainment | Release Date: October 10, 2003 | R

Starring: John Livingston

Summary: Dopamine looks at the complexities of finding love when post-modern angst, fate and personal obsessions conspire against you. Ultimately, it is a reminder that in this era of over communication, over information and over analysis, there is still room for blind faith and maybe even true love. (Dopamine Productions)

Director: Mark Decena

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 79 min

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Roger Ebert

What's alluring is the way the characters played by John Livingston and Sabrina Lloyd savor each other, in between their troubles. Movies are too quick to interrupt romance with sex. Sarah and Rand fascinate us with their dance of dread and desire. Read full review

Merle Bertrand

Would that we could extract the essence of this utterly enjoyable film and distill its creativity, intelligence and originality into a serum which we could then inject into all the tapped-out Hollywood screenwriters and directors out there. Read full review

Kevin Crust

Overcomes some forced artiness to be a sweet, smart romance without being saccharine. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

A melancholy romance that has the distinction of being the first film set among San Francisco dotcommers that knows it's about the end of the boom. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Billed as the first film to go from conception to the big screen within the Sundance program, Dopamine is an amiably slight independent film that probably should have gone directly to the Sundance Channel. Read full review

Scott Foundas

A dweeby and unenchanting concoction as romantic comedies go, Mark Decena's debut feature also juggles enough storylines to fill five or six movies in barely 80 minutes of screen time, ending up with a whole distinctly less than the sum of its parts. Read full review

Scott Foundas

This feels like a movie that was grown in a petri dish -- poked and prodded with all manner of overcooked symbolism and thesis statements, but fatally absent the genuine human emotions about which it incessantly prattles on. Read full review

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