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The City of Your Final Destination

Play trailer Poster for The City of Your Final Destination PG-13 Released Apr 16, 2010 1h 54m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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An academic (Omar Metwally) goes to Uruguay to persuade the heirs of a deceased author to grant him permission to write the man's biography.
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A stellar cast can't elevate this leaden adaptation that, while just as beautiful as anything director James Ivory's made before, comes off as dusty and dry.

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David Stratton At the Movies (Australia) This is a very disappointing film. It lacks life, really. Rated: 2.5/5 Oct 13, 2010 Full Review Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald It's not an entirely boring film. After a while, your pulse rate slows and you settle into the landscape. The two-hour running time, however, puts you in acute danger of growing moss. Rated: 3/5 Oct 11, 2010 Full Review Tom Long Detroit News Slow, dull and wielding absolutely no emotional impact despite a fine cast. Rated: D Aug 13, 2010 Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) Just like Cameron's book, it is not an easy lecture. We must lend our undivided attention to each word and each whisper. [Full review in Spanish] Jul 20, 2022 Full Review Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper The City of Your Final Destination lives and dies on the force of its cast. Ivory has assembled a powerhouse, multigenerational group, aided and abetted by a setting with a distinctly theatrical feel. Jan 22, 2020 Full Review Laura Hiros Rincón de cine ... a delight for anyone who likes contemplative cinema, where many times, an image says more than a thousand words. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/5 Mar 16, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Brenda M Another example of how much I love the films that other people really don’t. Beautiful to look at. Amazing music/soundtrack/score. And what I found to be some interesting characters and a plot. Sometimes we do what we do solely because it’s familiar and we haven’t rallied enough courage to do what we need to do. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/10/24 Full Review Audience Member I loved it. I am from Uruguay, and so it had an added quality in my case. I loved how perfectly in character actors acted according to their own provenance. Not a shred of foreign accents and modes, everyone sounded authentic. It is not a fast paced movie ( so what?), but it follows its own needed tempo. Perhaps it is unevenly cast. There is no male figure to even represent a supporting role to Anthony Hopkins. The author's role should have been given to someone at least a bit more charismatic. Of the women, Norma Aleandro is a lot of fun, and so truthful for those of us who grew up with such types. Worth watching. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Give them a break regarding the somewhat talky dialogue and bask in the amazing home architecture (particularly Pete and Adam's Bauhaus dream) and the subtle journey undertaken by Charlotte Gainsborough's face as she stiff upper lips it through falling in love. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Insufferable pretension with generally pallid performances in beautiful landscapes. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Yawn. There is a good movie here waiting to be told, but it's not the one that they made. Omar is a horribly stiff and boring protagonist, Caroline is a one-dimensional cardboard miserable ice-queen, Arden is the flighty one who falls in love with anything that says hi, and Deirdre is an obvious mismatched bitch for Omar. This is painfully slow for no reason, from the get-go we know what's going to happen. The real movie waiting to be made is the one about Anthony Hopkins' Adam and his paramour Pete (Hiroyuki Sanada). That is the one I would enjoy. His scenes aren't nearly enough, but Hopkins is the only reason to watch this, and oozes South American relaxation as well as anyone. The 25 year love story between Adam and Pete is the one that interests me. Everyone else I could leave for sure. Nice scenery only takes you so far...but sometimes you're just too lazy to turn it off, and instead you marvel and how it can be bad without being offensive, just a poorly executed idea. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Mostly unremarkably boring. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An academic (Omar Metwally) goes to Uruguay to persuade the heirs of a deceased author to grant him permission to write the man's biography.
Director
James Ivory
Producer
Paul Bradley, Pierre Proner
Screenwriter
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Distributor
Screen Media Ventures
Production Co
Merchant Ivory Productions
Rating
PG-13 (Partial Nudity)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 16, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 18, 2016
Runtime
1h 54m
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