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Multiple Sarcasms

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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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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Great movie!!! Mira Sorvino is hot as usual, great acting all around!! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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
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
Runtime
1h 37m
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