Multiple Sarcasms

R

Released May 7, 2010

1 hr. 37 min.

Drama

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9%

22 Reviews

Tomatometer

24%

1,000+ Ratings

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Gabriel (Timothy Hutton) is a successful architect but, one day, realizes that he hates his life; he quits his job to write a play, a decision that ruins his marriage but brings him happiness.

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Not bad. Not magical. Real, and at the same time unrelatable. A good sense of humor with an uninvited melancholy. An unexpected predictability.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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kevin w

A fine cast cannot save this rumination on male menopause and apology, so inert, so bad, so lifeless, that the mere description repells. Who greenlighted this? What could the pitch have been? ("Let me make this or I'll tell ... !" comes to mind) The home shopping network has more appeal, or the Disney Channel.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

The film was so so. It needed a rewrite. It seemed at times that it wasn't balanced. The pacing was off. On the positive the film does have some great scenes in it. Timothy Hutton is ok as the lead, but I was expecting better from him. Mira Sorvino steals the film. She is great in every scene of the film. Stockard Channing, Dana Delany, and Mario Van Peebles provide solid supporting work here. It was great seeing Joan Jett in the film. The film is worth checking out for Mira Sorvino's performance.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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amazing all star cast like the kind they could only do during the studio system as an unhappy man trasshes his marriage and career while writing a play about it all this period piece set in the halycon daze of 1979.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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walter m

In "Multiple Sarcasms," Gabriel(Timothy Hutton) takes the day off from work as an architect to go to the Cinema Village to see "Starting Over" and in the process helps a homeless man. His boss Rocky(Mario Van Peebles) has been noting his lack of interest at work for a while, especially on a project for Lauren(Laila Robins). A lot of that has to do with trying to write a play but since it is not yet complete, Pamela(Stockard Channing), an agent, will not represent him since she "represents playwrights, not schmucks," hanging up on him. Also sensing something amiss with her husband and wanting to get into the bathroom at some point, Annie(Dana Delany) suggests a trip to visit her relatives. While it might be tragic for a person not to live up to their true potential, it can also be a little sad for a movie to do so which is true for the underwhelming "Multiple Sarcasms" with its totally unnecessary vulgarity. The movie has an intriguing premise and a great cast but even they cannot redeem something so flatly executed. The promise comes from hints at a meta approach to a midlife crisis but that only comes at the very beginning and end, leaving a vast wasteland in the middle. To be honest, any games of what if should end when a person first becomes a parent which is the point of no return.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Great movie!!! Mira Sorvino is hot as usual, great acting all around!!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Brooks Branch

Director

Timothy Hutton

Gabriel

Mira Sorvino

Cari

Dana Delany

Annie

Mario Van Peebles

Rocky

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Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

The cast is uniformly appealing in out-of-left-field ways, but writer-director Brooks Branch lets the story amble lazily.

Rated: 3/4

Apr 27, 2020

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Perri Nemiroff

CinemaBlend

The filmmaking, acting and the soundtrack are adequate, but the main character is such an unlikable lead that while the film is entertaining, it's hard to enjoy.

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 14, 2010

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

An hour-and-a-half mopefest so complete that by the end of it, you want to give Hutton's character a smack in the face and tell him to stop whining, already.

Rated: 2.5/5

May 13, 2010

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

A tedious and unappealing portrait of the obsession of a middle-age architect to write a play.

Rated: .5/5

May 27, 2010

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Tony Medley

tonymedley.com

The simplistic philosophy and cast of characters out of Hollywood's bag of cliches are bad enough, but do we have to be confronted with women's female problems, too?

Rated: 1/10

May 22, 2010

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Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

Might serve a useful therapeutic function for its writer-director, but for the rest of us the exercise in self-examination will have a much less beneficial effect, unless you suffer from insomnia.

Rated: C-

May 20, 2010

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Synopsis

Gabriel (Timothy Hutton) is a successful architect but, one day, realizes that he hates his life; he quits his job to write a play, a decision that ruins his marriage but brings him happiness.

Director: Brooks Branch
Executive Producer: Patrice Auld, Keith Grinstein, Martha Moseley
Screenwriter: Brooks Branch, Linda Morris
Distributor: Multiple Avenue Releasing
Production Co: Multiple Avenue Releasing, New Films International
Rating: R (Language|Sexual References)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 7, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $28.9K

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