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      Chelsea Walls

      R Released Apr 19, 2002 1 hr. 49 min. Drama List
      26% 47 Reviews Tomatometer 40% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Grace (Uma Thurman), Audrey (Rosario Dawson), Frank (Vincent D'Onofrio), Bud (Kris Kristofferson), Greta (Tuesday Weld), and Ross (Steve Zahn) are all new residents in the historic Chelsea Hotel. A former haven for budding NYC artists, these new hotel residents, young and full of expectations, mingle with the old hotel ghosts and guests, ultimately becoming interchangeable. They form a community, linked by their dreams. Read More Read Less
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      The meandering Chelsea Walls is more pretentious than poetic.

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      kevin c Set at the famous/infamous Chelsea Hotel in New York City, this basically is a series of five unrelated stories about some of the residents of the hotel. Pretty great cast and well acted by them, but it just didn't hold my interest very much. I wanted to like this more, but was just bored for the most part. Directed by Ethan Hawke. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Very hard to watch. Certainly not pleasant, too disjointed. It was so irritating I left it 45" into it. I don't care about these characters. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Watched it and loved it for it's New York sensibility, the great shots of the Chelsea Hotel and a big heartthrob of mine, Vincent D'Onofrio. Great cast, self-indulgent, whiny characters. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member It's something you have to be a certain frame of mind to want to watch as well as properly appreciate. There's no plot, really, just an intermingling of different people living in a hotel for artists and how their art and themselves interact with others. Certainly something that helps a great deal when you have writer's block Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Ethan Hawke's reverent but crappy imitation of if John Cassavetes was doing Dylan Thomas. Speaking of Cassavetes, he was a director many thought was before his time (I personally wish he would have never had a time - then we wouldn't be saddled with his junk and junk like this). Actors/Actresses love the freedom with this style, so we get an A/B ensemble cast slumming and improvising . If it wasn't for some of the music (such as Little Jimmy Scott), I wouldn't have made it through this whole movie. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member So bad I couldn't watch but the first 30 minutes of it. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Chicago Tribune It is dead on the inside, never quite achieving the movements and emotional solidity the material demands. Rated: 2/4 Jul 20, 2002 Full Review Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer Hawke's actors are a talented troupe, and even when things get self-indulgent and fuzzy-headed (and boy, do they!), interesting stuff is going on. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 13, 2002 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Movies like this do not grab you by the throat. You have to be receptive. Rated: 3/4 Jun 7, 2002 Full Review John A. Nesbit Old School Reviews Linklater fans, or pretentious types who want to appear avant-garde will suck up to this Rated: C- Oct 9, 2011 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...a disastrously ill-conceived drama... Rated: .5/4 May 21, 2011 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jun 26, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Grace (Uma Thurman), Audrey (Rosario Dawson), Frank (Vincent D'Onofrio), Bud (Kris Kristofferson), Greta (Tuesday Weld), and Ross (Steve Zahn) are all new residents in the historic Chelsea Hotel. A former haven for budding NYC artists, these new hotel residents, young and full of expectations, mingle with the old hotel ghosts and guests, ultimately becoming interchangeable. They form a community, linked by their dreams.
      Director
      Ethan Hawke
      Executive Producer
      Jonathan Sehring, Caroline Kaplan, John Sloss
      Screenwriter
      Nicole Burdette, Nicole Burdette
      Distributor
      Lionsgate Films
      Rating
      R (Language)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Apr 19, 2002, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 1, 2012
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $59.7K
      Sound Mix
      Surround