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Claire Dolan

Play trailer Poster for Claire Dolan Released Sep 13, 1998 1h 35m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Following her mother's death, a New York prostitute (Katrin Cartlidge) leaves her profession to find a mate and have a child.

Critics Reviews

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J. Hoberman Village Voice Less awful than inert, Claire Dolan comes across as a willfully bad movie. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times [Kerrigan] accepts the challenge of central characters who do not let us know what they're thinking. Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Hannah Brown New York Post In spite of Cartlidge's impressive performance in the lead, the film is simply not as involving or moving as it should be. Rated: 2.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jun 30, 2005 Full Review Reel.com Rated: 2/4 Jun 15, 2002 Full Review Jeremiah Kipp Filmcritic.com Clinically austere. Rated: 2.5/5 Feb 14, 2001 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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Audience Member A terrific film that deserves to be seen. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A very bleak movie centering around a high-class call girl. Stylistically it's very similar to "Clean, Shaven" (director's previous effort). While it has a few moments of brilliance, as a whole the style doesn't quite work for this movie. Perhaps it needs a bit more of a background story or character development, as the characters are so distant and unlikeable it's hard to sympathize with or care for them. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Booooooooooooooooring Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Another brilliant character study from Kerrigan. He demonstrates a surprising amount of maturity for what is only his second film. The writing is assured in that, it is what is NOT said, that keeps us intrigued. The lack of feeling permeates each scene. Bresson is a huge inlfuence. Visual storytelling at its most precise and detached. Katrin Cartlidge gives us one of the finest performances of the decade. Thankfully, her final images on screen are heartwarming and moving. It's the strength of Lodge's first two films that helped give him international acclaim. It's not surprising that shortly thereafter Soderbergh would be giving him a call... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member one of those movies that sticks with you for a while after viewing. cartlidge is great and d'onofrio is surprisingly kinda decked in a ruffalo way. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member In spite of Cartlidge's impressive performance in the lead, the film devotes so much of its energy to building and sustaining a mood of urban desolation that the story never quite jells. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Following her mother's death, a New York prostitute (Katrin Cartlidge) leaves her profession to find a mate and have a child.
Director
Lodge Kerrigan
Producer
Ann Ruark
Screenwriter
Lodge Kerrigan
Distributor
Touchstone Pictures, Independent Feature Project, New Yorker Films
Production Co
MK2 Productions, Serene Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 13, 1998, Original
Box Office (Gross USA)
$9.5K
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby Digital