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Keane

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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.

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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 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 3/5 Sep 22, 2006 Full Review Geoff Pevere Toronto Star Unshakably harrowing but deeply moving. Rated: 3.5/4 Jun 16, 2006 Full Review Lael Loewenstein FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) It is excruciatingly tense and so well-acted... An extraordinary film. Aug 26, 2022 Full Review Chelsea Bain Boston Herald Rated: 3/4 Oct 21, 2006 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review Audience Member Interesting piece but it was work to get through. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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