Last Weekend

Name: Last Weekend
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: August 29, 2014
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Alexia Rasmussen, Chris Mulkey, Devon Graye, Jayma Mays, Joseph Cross

2014

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Sundance Selects | Release Date: August 29, 2014 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexia Rasmussen, Chris Mulkey, Devon Graye, Jayma Mays, Joseph Cross, Judith Light, Patricia Clarkson, Rutina Wesley, Zachary Booth

Summary: An affluent matriarch (Patricia Clarkson) asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster. [IFC Films]

Director: Tom Dolby and Tom Williams

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Mick LaSalle

Sep 11, 2014

Aside from Patricia Clarkson, who is practically this movie's reason for being, the great virtue of Last Weekend is that it's exactly as it presents itself. Read full review

Serena Donadoni

Aug 26, 2014

Last Weekend is too enamored of this nouveau riche household to be satirical, instead offering unexpected moments of genuine warmth as a calling card for goodness. Read full review

David Rooney

Aug 28, 2014

Restrained and elegant to a fault, this first feature from co-directors Tom Dolby and Tom Williams is too muted in its catharsis and too overcrowded with superfluous characters to be fully satisfying, but the delicate central performance keeps it watchable. Read full review

Sheila O’Malley

Aug 27, 2014

Clarkson has great emotional authority onscreen, but even she can’t save Last Weekend. It’s beautifully filmed, with a great feel for location and atmosphere, but it feels petty. The vacation home is huge, but the emotions are exceedingly small. Read full review

Betsy Sharkey

Sep 9, 2014

All the possibilities of a richly drawn family squabble fade faster than the final days of summer. Read full review

Andy Webster

Aug 28, 2014

Mostly, Last Weekend is an elegiac ode to affluence. Read full review

Drew Hunt

Aug 25, 2014

The filmmakers are content to idealize everyone's unchecked narcissism and idle privilege--an inquiry-free recipe for disaster in an age when the American wealth gap is wider and more detrimental than ever. Read full review

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ept

Sep 3, 2014

This film was moving and thought provoking. The character interactions were very real. Patricia Clarkson is amazing and towards the end you feel for her especially if you are a mother. I would recommend this film.

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jdelashmet

Sep 23, 2014

I loved the feeling that I was a third person participant--not really a voyeur, as I was closer to the goings-on of the family, and privy to the individual "secrets" of each of its members. I loved the pacing: It had the rhythm of a lazy holiday family weekend interjected with a fewI loved the feeling that I was a third person participant--not really a voyeur, as I was closer to the goings-on of the family, and privy to the individual "secrets" of each of its members. I loved the pacing: It had the rhythm of a lazy holiday family weekend interjected with a few eventful happenings, brothers putting their best faces forward, hiding mistakes, fears. It is beautifully photographed and the acting--especially that of Patricia Clarkson--is sensitive and memorable. It has lingered with me, and I think it is quite special.… Expand

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BoatAshore

Oct 7, 2014

Really worth checking out. Great cast, nuanced story, and beautifully shot. Fantastic balance of humor and pathos. Sure to springboard a lively discussion afterwards. I highly recommend.

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