Slipstream

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Slipstream

R

Released Oct 26, 2007

1h 37m

Comedy

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Fantasy

Sci-Fi

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An aging man, Felix Bonhoeffer (Anthony Hopkins), finds that the characters in a murder mystery, which he is writing as a screenplay, are invading his life. Although it astounds him that the real world and the play are merging, he fails to realize that he is losing his mind.

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Critics Consensus

Slipstream is a failed experiment; confusing instead of coherent.

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Alissa Wilkinson

Paste Magazine

Slipstream meanders into some lucidity by film's end, but it remains difficult to determine if it's a work born of genius or madness. The decision lies with the viewer.

Apr 12, 2016

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Melissa Anderson

Time Out

Rated: 1/5

Nov 17, 2011

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New York Daily News

Rated: 2.5/4

Nov 3, 2007

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Alternately interesting and unwatchable.

Feb 29, 2008

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Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

Slipstream is utterly unwatchable. I hated every minute of it.

Rated: 0/10

Feb 28, 2008

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Blake French

Filmcritic.com

A Hopkins personal vanity project

Rated: 3/5

Nov 9, 2007

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Audience Member

I know I'm in the minority, but I honestly thought this film was brilliant. Kind of a non-linear meditation on creativity and the commercialization of creativity and the environment that builds up around that. Both profound and silly at the same time. A little like life.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

More incoherent than a drunk toddler speaking a foreign language.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

Interesting and bold stream-of-consciousness film by Anthony Hopkins about a man on the brink of death and the world he envisions in his transition. It's ultimately a bit of a failed attempt though. And this movie is just going to alienate most audiences...

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Audience Member

Pretty weird movie -- essentially about losing one's mind, I think, but I cannot tell for certain. And then the very end throws all of that out the window.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Frances H

I love films like this one, which push boundaries and can be interpreted in many, many ways, perhaps unique to each viewer. There are so many different types of reality-dreams, imagination, the movies, books, ideas, mental problems, television, illness, approaching death--so many things influence our personal view of reality. But one thing is sure (if anything can be), no one's personal view of reality is the absolute. I can see why Hopkins didn't want anyone else to have final cut over himself on this film--it would alter his reality, and would have utterly spoiled the film.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/22/15

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hardy c

The only thing worthwhile was seeing that Kevin McCarthy was still alive in 2007. I have no idea what blackmail Hopkins used to get anyone else to work on this...film??

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Synopsis

An aging man, Felix Bonhoeffer (Anthony Hopkins), finds that the characters in a murder mystery, which he is writing as a screenplay, are invading his life. Although it astounds him that the real world and the play are merging, he fails to realize that he is losing his mind.

Director: Anthony Hopkins
Producer: Stella Hopkins, Robert Katz
Screenwriter: Anthony Hopkins
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Slipstream LLC
Rating: R (Language|Some Violent Images)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 26, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.3K
Runtime: 1h 37m

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