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Chelsea Walls

R Released Apr 19, 2002 1h 49m Drama List
26% Tomatometer 47 Reviews 40% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings
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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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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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
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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
Producer
Gary Winick, Alexis Alexanian, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler
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
Runtime
1h 49m
Sound Mix
Surround