King of the Corner

Name: King of the Corner
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: June 17, 2005
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 55

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Ardustry Home Entertainment | Release Date: June 17, 2005 | R

Summary: A humorous, honest, multi-faceted look into how one man turns his midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. (Eleveation Filmworks)

Director: Peter Riegert

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 93 min

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Roger Ebert

King of the Corner is not plot-driven. It's like life: just one damned thing after another Read full review

Lou Lumenick

A witty and wise midlife comedy, not only represents Peter Riegert's debut as a feature director but gives this gifted veteran performer his juiciest big-screen role in quite some time. Read full review

Desson Thomson

A warm, unexpectedly moving portrait of a man on the verge of what could either be a dreadful or delightful second chapter. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Warm and wise comedy of middle-age malaise. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

It's all pleasant but fairly unimportant, and then -- POW -- comes the great scene, almost out of nowhere. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Lacks the stylistic attention to psychological distress that might have lent it maximum impact. Instead, the pic is amiable, kinda charming, visually routine, and incisive in individual sequences. Read full review

Jack Mathews

But look up the word "slight" in the dictionary and you could find a still from this film. Read full review

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JayE.

Aug 30, 2005

With the exception of Jake Hoffman, who needs a lot more time in regional theater, even if Pops can get him Hollywood parts, the acting is first rate; and a couple of scenes (the opening, the hero's impromptu funeral oration) work nicely. But hasty under-editing quickly exposes an With the exception of Jake Hoffman, who needs a lot more time in regional theater, even if Pops can get him Hollywood parts, the acting is first rate; and a couple of scenes (the opening, the hero's impromptu funeral oration) work nicely. But hasty under-editing quickly exposes an extraordinarily weak screenplay (appearing in person at the showing I watched, Peter Riegert refused to provide any explanation for the hero's gratuitous and cruel betrayal of a former high school crush). The lighting was terrible, the print grainy, the theme confused -- a drama whose comic relief was so heavy-handed and improbable, it descended into satire.The most lasting impression I took from this sincere effort: no matter how talented, one guy, with an ultra-low budget and some pals working for scale, cannot make a worthy feature film. Sadly, the distributors who turned Riegert down were right.… Expand

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