Keane

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Keane

R

Released Sep 5, 2005

1h 32m

Drama

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Keane (Damian Lewis) is a mentally unbalanced man who roams the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City, looking for his daughter, who was supposedly kidnapped a year earlier. When he's not at the bus station he holes up in a dingy hotel, numbing himself with drugs and alcohol. But when Lynn (Amy Ryan), a young single mother, and her daughter, Kira (Abigail Breslin), check into the hotel, Keane reaches out to help them, and he ends up helping himself at the same time.

Critics Consensus

The scrutinizing camera angles of Keane might at first feel too close for comfort, but this powerful portrait of a man distraught by the abduction of his child plumbs the depths of mental illness and the corners of fleabag hotels in an intimate and touching examination of the seedier side of life.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

It is like bad Bresson, if that were a possibility. All signifiers and no meaning; all tics and no truths; all mute emoting and no emotion.

Rated: 2/5

May 15, 2015

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Unshakably harrowing but deeply moving.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jun 16, 2006

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Kate Taylor

Globe and Mail

The film achieves a dramatic intensity that is both admirable and frustrating.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 16, 2006

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Lael Loewenstein

FilmWeek (LAist)

It is excruciatingly tense and so well-acted... An extraordinary film.

Aug 26, 2022

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Chelsea Bain

Boston Herald

Rated: 3/4

Oct 21, 2006

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Ken Eisner

Georgia Straight

One's compassion is both challenged and expanded by a rare movie that really does go its own way.

Sep 29, 2006

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Audience Member

Interesting piece but it was work to get through.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

Really unsettling viewing and you're never quite sure where the boundary lies between a conscientious good man and a schizophrenic liability. Throwing a stranger's kid into the mix is all a little bit too much for comfort. An interesting portrait of a man's life unravelling in any case.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Audience Member

The film isn't all that great. But Damian Lewis proves again why he continues to be one of the most underrated actors working today. It's his tour de force performance that really carries this film to the finish line.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

The film isn't all that great. But Damian Lewis proves again why he continues to be one of the most underrated actors working today. It's his tour de force performance that really carries this film to the finish line.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

The film isn't all that great. But Damian Lewis proves again why he continues to be one of the most underrated actors working today. It's his tour de force performance that really carries this film to the finish line.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Audience Member

Tension palpable autour des intentions (bonne ou mauvaises?) d'un père désemparé à la recherche de sa prétendue fille disparue.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Synopsis

Keane (Damian Lewis) is a mentally unbalanced man who roams the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City, looking for his daughter, who was supposedly kidnapped a year earlier. When he's not at the bus station he holes up in a dingy hotel, numbing himself with drugs and alcohol. But when Lynn (Amy Ryan), a young single mother, and her daughter, Kira (Abigail Breslin), check into the hotel, Keane reaches out to help them, and he ends up helping himself at the same time.

Director: Lodge Kerrigan
Producer: Andrew Fierberg
Screenwriter: Lodge Kerrigan
Distributor: Magnolia Films
Production Co: Populist Pictures, Serene 9, Studio Fierberg, Canary Films, Section Eight Ltd.
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Scene of Strong Sexuality)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 5, 2005, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 2, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $30.3K
Runtime: 1h 32m

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