Better Things (2008)
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Movie Info
Cast
as Gail Wilson
as Tess Baker
as Rob
as Rachel
as David
as Jon
as Sarah
as Larry
as Nan Wilson
as Mr. Gladwin
as Mrs. Gladwin
as Tess's Mom
as Mr. Wilson
as Mrs. Wilson
as Julie
as Mike
as Joel
Critic Reviews for Better Things
All Critics (20) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (2)
An inventive, unclichéd example of British realism which shines a light into rarely explored social territory and the unexamined lives of its characters.
It's a miserable film, really, but it might just get you thinking - and make you grateful for what you've got.
The ironies are always cruel and never comic in British writer-director Duane Hopkins's striking debut, an austere, though empathetic, insightful and technically crisp slice of social realism.
The young director fails to inject us under the skin of his plotless drama of overdoses and funerals, but he clearly has talent to burn.
This is a dark and painful film, but one with a fervent belief in the possibility of love.
The film has a powerful, impressionistic style. Scenes are shot in suffocating, distorting close-up or at an equally stifling distance, revealing the sublime, indifferent landscape.
Audience Reviews for Better Things
Slightly disappointing in that this could have been a really great film. Better Things is realistic and gritty, but has a very depressed tone to it, this suits it's subject matter, yet the uncertainty of story order sometimes confuses and whilst the characters are not all linked as such, there is a common link in the situations themselves. I just feel this film is missing a special ingredient that should have made it a really talked about, interesting, hard hitting film.
Super Reviewer
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