Minnie and Moskowitz

Name: Minnie and Moskowitz
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: December 22, 1971
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Elizabeth Deering, Elsie Ames, Gena Rowlands, Holly Near, Judith Roberts

1971

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 22, 1971 | GP

Starring: Elizabeth Deering, Elsie Ames, Gena Rowlands, Holly Near, Judith Roberts, Katherine Cassavetes, Lady Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Timothy Carey, Val Avery

Summary: A museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant.

Director: John Cassavetes

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: GP

Runtime: 114 min

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Roger Ebert

This kind of casting can't help but give the movie an intimate, familiar feeling, and maybe that's why the comedy works as human comedy and not just manufactured laughs. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

With MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ, Cassavetes took a break from the decidedly somber mood of FACES and HUSBANDS, and produced the most accessible, and endearing example of his very exceptional art. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

The wild L.A. romance of a museum curator and a parking lot attendant. [09 Jan 1998, p.C]

Richard Brody

The sculptural physicality of the images, a 3-D explosion without glasses, embodies that violence while preserving the antagonists’ innocent grace; love smooths things out to a dreamy and reflective shine. Read full review

Dave Kehr

It’s a funny film, and it’s even charming in a shaggy way, but there isn’t a light moment in it—Cassavetes demands that comedy be played as passionately as drama. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Mr. Cassavetes's use of exaggerated slapstick gestures to underscore the loneliness and fears of his characters is more interesting in theory than funny or moving in actual fact. Read full review

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Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel play the title roles in Minnie And Moskowitz, an oppressive and irritating film in which a shrill and numbing hysteria of acting and direction soon kills any empathy for the loneliness of the main characters. John Cassavetes wrote and directed in his now-familiar home-movie improvisational and indulgent style. Read full review

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