Virginia

R

Released May 18, 2012

1 hr. 56 min.

Drama

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11%

27 Reviews

Tomatometer

25%

1,000+ Ratings

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A troubled single mother (Jennifer Connelly) carries on an affair with a married sheriff (Ed Harris) and struggles to raise her son in their small-minded town.

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Critics Consensus

Brave, autobiographical, but also completely off the mark, Virginia is a frantic drama that fails to pull the viewer in.

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Blu B

This movies climax is just insane and filled with bizarre scenes from Connelly wearing a gorilla mask robbing a bank in high heels to a paper bagged hostage mormon. Everything else is just subpar about it. The cinematography isn't well done and really feels very amateurish on top of just bizarre scenes. he worst part about this is it never really ties the 3 main story lines together. The coming of age, affair, and melodrama never comes together in a cohseive way and jumps around terribly at times as these character never really share much screen time together. It's very hard to tell you what the central message or focus is of these stories or believe them because it just isn't executed that well either. Connelly is alright and has her moments but every else is ok enough perfromance wise but the characters make some dumb and hard to understand choices that weigh it down. No one really has much chemsitry. The music also just is playing feels like it's the same track over and over low key in the back and isn't good. Skip This.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/09/24

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Audience Member

Astoundingly bad. Really, just one of the worst.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

It's always difficult to portray mental illness but the mixture of comedy and violence in this movie totally confused the issue

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

Virginia is kind of all over the place that doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. But Jennifer Connelly is so good here, so it was worth watching, I guess.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

Canned A Little Harshly By Critics, I Did Not Think This Was Too Terrible. The Two Leads Do Well &'A Rag-Tag Array Of Minor Roles Keep It Interesting. I Drifted Along With The Story, Not Fighting To Find A Deeper Meaning, It Gad Similarities To Other Quirky Films, Which Are Probably Better Examples, But As I Said, This Isn't Too Bad.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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yash b

A bizarre movie that is hardly entertaining, it's mostly just really awkward, There was potential with the concept here, but unfortunately it is just a big mess that is neither effective with its humor or dramatic elements.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Dustin Lance Black

Director

Jennifer Connelly

Virginia

Ed Harris

Richard Tipton

Emma Roberts

Jessie Tipton

Harrison Gilbertson

Emmett

Amy Madigan

Roseanna Tipton

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Jason Bailey

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It's a hard picture to pin down--it has the raw materials for a big, dumb farce, but it stakes out a claim in altogether more interesting territory.

Apr 9, 2016

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AV Club

Rated: C+

Jun 15, 2012

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

A strong cast can't save "Virginia," Dustin Lance Black's film about a schizophrenic mom in a small Virginia beach town.

Rated: 2/5

Jun 7, 2012

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

Dustin Lance Black shows us that it is truly is the simple things in life that are often the most wonderful...just like Virginia.

Nov 26, 2019

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Tara Thorne

The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

It's not funny, it's not charming and it's only clear it's set in modern day when a character mentions the internet.

Nov 17, 2018

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Fred Topel

CraveOnline

Sensitive about characters exploring this culture and the conversations they must have trying to figure out relationships. It's not ridiculing or condescending at all.

Rated: 6 out of 10

May 26, 2012

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Synopsis

A troubled single mother (Jennifer Connelly) carries on an affair with a married sheriff (Ed Harris) and struggles to raise her son in their small-minded town.

Director: Dustin Lance Black
Executive Producer: Gus Van Sant, Yeardley Smith, Jay Froberg, Greg Seuss
Screenwriter: Dustin Lance Black
Distributor: Entertainment One
Production Co: Killer Films, TicTock Studios
Rating: R (Some Sexual Content|Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 18, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 21, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.9K

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