30 Beats

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30 Beats

R

2012

1h 28m

Romance

Comedy

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22 Reviews

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The lives of a number of New Yorkers (Jennifer Tilly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Paz de la Huerta) intertwine through a chain reaction of sexual encounters sparked by a summertime heat wave.

Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

07/20/2012

This umpteenth variation on Schnitzler's classic play La Ronde fails to arouse.

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Sara Stewart

New York Post

07/19/2012

1.5/4

In "30 Beats," the conversational foreplay is hopelessly flaccid.

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Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

07/19/2012

2/5

Despite the presence of such actors as Lee Pace, Jennifer Tilly, Justin Kirk, Thomas Sadoski and Paz de la Huerta, there is no character insight allowed by the bumper-car storytelling.

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Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

08/02/2012

A date movie for narcoleptics.

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Dan Kaufman

Paste Magazine

07/26/2012

5.9/10

As an experiment, 30 Beats is an uneven, if not entirely uninteresting, failure. In its attempt to be modern and titillating, it actually distances and confounds.

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Robert Levin

amNewYork

07/23/2012

1.5/4

The characters are props in what's essentially a lame screenwriting exercise.

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11/05/2014

An awkward tale of sex during a supposed heat wave in NYC. The heat wave has nothing to do with anything. A couple has sex, then we follow one of the participants to another encounter. After that sexual escapade, we follow the partner to another bout of sex, etc. until we come full circle back to the 2nd partner in the first scene. Boring beyond belief. Nothing titillating in any of it. Some nudity by Vahina Giocante is nice though.

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09/13/2013

Wow! This is bad. I kept it on just to see if it could get worse. And, guess what, it did! It's like any Cinemax (Skinemax!) soft core porn show, with all the bad acting and zero plot. But, none of the sex!

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05/03/2013

30 Beats has the feel of a low budget movie. There are interesting things in the lot, especially the psychic experience, but overall, the acting is subpar, the editing awkward, and logic is not always there to meet us. If you've got some time to spare and you like scenarios that present a patchwork of life, this might be for you.

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03/24/2013

An enjoyable story that connects them all in the end. It was worth a watch, but it will never need to be repeated.

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02/17/2013

Odd movie about the passions of the person

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12/22/2012

but what does '30 beats' mean?

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Erika

Ingeborga Dapkunaite

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Paz de la Huerta

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Synopsis

The lives of a number of New Yorkers (Jennifer Tilly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Paz de la Huerta) intertwine through a chain reaction of sexual encounters sparked by a summertime heat wave.

Director: Alexis Lloyd
Producer: Molly Conners, Carl Kwaku Ford, Alexis Lloyd
Screenwriter: Alexis Lloyd
Distributor: Roadside Attractions
Rating: R (Language|Sexual Content|Nudity)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 20, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 9, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.7K
Runtime: 1h 28m

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