Keane

R

Released Sep 5, 2005

1h 32m

Drama

List

82%

Tomatometer

62 Reviews

70%

Audience Score

5,000+ Ratings

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.

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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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Empire Magazine

Rated: 3/5

Sep 22, 2006

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Unshakably harrowing but deeply moving.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jun 16, 2006

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Lael Loewenstein

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

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

Aug 26, 2022

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Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

Only Kerrigan's previous Clean, Shaven surpasses it as a sympathetic study of a man unravelled.

Feb 24, 2021

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Chelsea Bain

Boston Herald

Rated: 3/4

Oct 21, 2006

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Shock Therapy R

Nothing escapes the camera lens. You can feel what he feels. The life he relives day after day finally has its own cast and a true life character. The unwitting girl nevertheless intuitively loves and cares for the hurting protagonist. Everything is real again and what will the protagonist do amidst this flood of emotions and a predilection that constantly grates against his mind and his heart, one and the same? This is a beautiful portrait of loss up close and very personal.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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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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william s

Just all over the place and the camera angels are headache inducing.I give a big thumbs up for the imagination of the director but the movie is just to frantic to stay with.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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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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Lodge Kerrigan

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Abigail Breslin

Kira Bedik

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Lynn Bedik

Liza Colón-Zayas

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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: Serene 9, Section Eight Ltd., Populist Pictures, Canary Films, Studio Fierberg
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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