Drawing With Chalk

2009

1h 27m

Drama

List

29%

Tomatometer

7 Reviews

90%

Popcornmeter

50+ Ratings

Two musicians try one last time to make it and get a record deal.

Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

When will American directors understand that it's okay, sometimes even wonderful, for a film to be silent?

Rated: 1/4

Mar 27, 2011

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Screaming "vanity project" from every hackneyed frame, "Drawing With Chalk" is yet another example of midlife American males doing all they can to avoid acting their age.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 24, 2011

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Ronnie Scheib

Variety

Chalk suffers overall from a lack of subtlety, as problems abruptly get thrust into the foreground with little buildup or internal consistency.

Mar 24, 2011

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Affirmation that it's never too late to go after one's dream.

Rated: 3.5/4.0

Sep 6, 2020

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Tender, genuinely heartfelt, inspirational, refreshingly unpredictable and, above all, relatable.

Rated: 8.3421/10

Mar 25, 2011

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Eric Monder

Film Journal International

Sitcom-style feature about a rock duo has too few genuine moments.

Mar 25, 2011

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Audience Member

I enjoyed the movie and embracing in characters that resemble real life. Everyone can relate to chasing after your dreams or wondering if you should have taken a different turn in your life to fulfill those dreams.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Great story, characters, and acting. The soundtrack is also very rocking!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

Great story that many adults can relate too; strong script; a beautiful film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

It's good movie that anyone in the real world can relate to. It's well written and well acted. The sound track is amazing.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

Todd Giglio's "Drawing With Chalk" is something of a hand crafted, low budget, soaring, and deeply moving masterpiece. It brings us a familiar concept for a film, and converts it into an original, great looking, and unbelievably well acted experience. The characters are remarkably vivid, developed through out the film with warmth and honesty, played beautifully by the entire cast. The film is a true depiction of the aspects, good or bad, of life, the ways that you can choose to live, and the people that you share it with. For different people, the out come will spring different emotions, but I am quite sure that for the majority of viewers, that the out come of this picture will satisfy and move them unlike most other movies have before. It's a treasure.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Todd Giglio

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Kapil Bawa

Dr. Jeyadoss

Susham Bedi

Mrs. Jeyadoss

Michael Gentile

Robert

Ariel Bailey

Club Patron

Tim Berardi

Ron

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Synopsis

Two musicians try one last time to make it and get a record deal.

Director: Todd Giglio
Screenwriter: Todd Giglio, Christopher Springer
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 27m