Virginia

Name: Virginia
Genre: Drama
Released: May 18, 2012
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 33
Cast: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Harrison Gilbertson, Jennifer Connelly

2012

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Entertainment One | Release Date: May 18, 2012 | R

Starring: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Harrison Gilbertson, Jennifer Connelly

Summary: Virginia is a beautiful yet unhinged single mother who struggles to raise her son Emmett while dreaming of escaping her small Southern boardwalk town. Her long time affair with the very married, Mormon Sheriff Richard Tipton is thrown into question when he decides to run for public office. Things are further complicated when Emmett begins aVirginia is a beautiful yet unhinged single mother who struggles to raise her son Emmett while dreaming of escaping her small Southern boardwalk town. Her long time affair with the very married, Mormon Sheriff Richard Tipton is thrown into question when he decides to run for public office. Things are further complicated when Emmett begins a romantic relationship with Tipton’s daughter. Virginia and the town—populated by Amy Madigan, Toby Jones, Yeardley Smith—are full of secrets and everyone knows Virginia can only keep things together for so long. Virginia is a funny, touching drama that looks at the American Dream and what it takes to keep it together. (eOne Films)
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Director: Dustin Lance Black

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 116 min

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Sam Adams

May 25, 2012

Black seems to be aiming for some sort of loopy fantasia, a tragic fable about struggling with difference in the small-town South, but he's got more half-finished ideas than he can handle. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

May 18, 2012

Black loses control of Virginia as it lurches from political satire to unintended black comedy to mom-and-son melodrama. But the performances and the movie's sheer crazy audacity make it watchable. Read full review

Movieline Alison Willmore

May 20, 2012

Virginia is like a box full of someone's long ago summer vacation keepsakes: pretty, but representative of memories and meaning no one else will be able to grasp. Read full review

Peter Debruge

May 12, 2012

A scattershot Southern melodrama that can't decide what it's supposed to be. Read full review

Eric Hynes

May 15, 2012

It also serves to undercut fine performances by Connelly and Harris, whose choices are constantly destabilized by scripted swings between comedy and drama, realism and fantasy, genuine catharsis and indie-film ornamentation. Black's overactive melodrama is more than a representation of schizophrenia; it's the embodiment of it. Read full review

Jesse Cataldo

May 14, 2012

Unfortunately, there's little sympathy granted to these people, and the revelation of their hidden vices comes across like an increasingly mean series of punchlines. Read full review

Sheri Linden

May 17, 2012

With its soft jabs at hypocrisy and band-aid use of voiceover narration, Virginia is an excruciatingly slow train wreck. Read full review

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