Lorelei

Name: Lorelei
Genre: Drama
Released: July 30, 2021
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Bob Barr, Chancellor Perry, Cory Ellis, Dana Millican, David Hallquist

2021

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| Release Date: July 30, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Bob Barr, Chancellor Perry, Cory Ellis, Dana Millican, David Hallquist, Gretchen Corbett, James Pratt, Jeb Berrier, Jena Malone, Jerry Bell Jr., Jerry McEntire Jr., Joseph Bertót, Joshua Schertenleib, Lynn Sher, Pablo Schreiber, Quinn Liebling, Ryan Findley, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Terry McLean, Tony Mothershead, Trish Egan

Summary: After 15 years in prison, Wayland (Pablo Schreiber) reunites with his high school girlfriend, Dolores (Jena Malone), who is now a single mother of three.

Director: Sabrina Doyle

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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G. Allen Johnson

Jul 29, 2021

The film’s writer-director is British-born Sabrina Doyle, who is making her feature debut after spending the past decade in Los Angeles making short films. Her touch is nearly perfect: authentic, patient, guiding — giving her actors plenty of space. And they respond. Read full review

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Kim Hughes

Jul 29, 2021

Lorelei is a lovely story told with heart and without judgment. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

May 14, 2020

As it stands, Lorelei is perfectly imperfect. It demonstrates a filmmaker willing to go for broke, examine the dark recesses of our minds that others are too timid to touch. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Jul 26, 2021

Lorelei is nothing if not a story about redemption. Read full review

Jon Frosch

May 14, 2020

Pablo Schreiber and Jena Malone hustle to overcome movie-ish dialogue and clichéd story dynamics, investing their life-bruised characters with authentic feeling. They're enough to make you care about the film — and the people in it — even at its clumsiest. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 1, 2021

Schreiber and Malone leave it all on the set in this sad but wistful romance, a movie about teen dreams that lose all meaning if they’re deferred too long. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Jul 29, 2021

The film is invested in accurately depicting the details of its character’s lives, but its collection of studied impressions doesn’t coalesce into a coherent final portrait. Read full review

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buttonmash

Sep 10, 2021

Absolutely stunning. A beautiful story with an amazing performance given by the entire cast. A masterpiece.

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JLuis_001

Aug 4, 2021

A somewhat exasperating drama that stands out more for the well-done work of its two protagonists than for the merits of the narration.

It may lend itself to a cliché-drenched dynamic, but there's authenticity in the emotions both present. Which makes up for the flat narrative structure.

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UncleWillard

Dec 23, 2021

I feel cheated. I got invested in the characters only to be let down by a crap ending and some sexist excuse for abandoning your family to pursue some pale whiff of a dream. Seriously, if a maneft his gf and kids to go pursue some bs dream, we'd have feminists frothing at the mouth for hisI feel cheated. I got invested in the characters only to be let down by a crap ending and some sexist excuse for abandoning your family to pursue some pale whiff of a dream. Seriously, if a maneft his gf and kids to go pursue some bs dream, we'd have feminists frothing at the mouth for his balls, but I guess if you're a woman, it's okay to dump the on your bf and head out of state to work in some stupid gay bar. Supremely disappointing and a waste of a decent cast.… Expand

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