Wildcat

In Theaters Fri May 3

1 hr. 48 min.

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Drama

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Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father's life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief. As she dives deeper into her craft, the lines between reality, imagination, and faith begin to blur, allowing Flannery to ultimately come to peace with her situation and heal a strained relationship with her mother.

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Philip Ettinger

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Chris Barsanti

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By shooting the fiction sequences with the same dreamy fish-eye unreality as the scenes showing O’Connor’s real life, the film blurs the line between the two until it’s almost nonexistent.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 28, 2024

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Alissa Wilkinson

Vox

A dreamy movie that evokes O’Connor’s biggest project: an inquiry into the broken nature of grace.

Sep 30, 2023

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Drew Gregory

Autostraddle

The fall festivals are a time for the most by-the-numbers biopics to launch their Oscar hopes. Amid that sameness, this collaboration between Ethan Hawke and daughter Maya Hawke is a much needed burst of inspiration.

Sep 18, 2023

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Andrew Dignan

In Review Online

[Ethan] is undoubtedly stirred by the writer’s prose... and [Maya] offers an appreciably prickly take on O’Connor’s inquisitiveness and quiet desperation, but the film remains, in nearly every respect, a fans-only proposition.

Apr 29, 2024

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

An unconventional, but anemic, undercooked and disjointed biopic

Apr 29, 2024

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Cameron Meier

MeierMovies.com

The film might mean more to those familiar with the author’s short stories and novels, as the script repeatedly adopts an “embedded narrative” that blurs the line between O’Connor’s life and her characters’.

Rated: 2.5/5

Apr 23, 2024

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Synopsis

Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father's life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief. As she dives deeper into her craft, the lines between reality, imagination, and faith begin to blur, allowing Flannery to ultimately come to peace with her situation and heal a strained relationship with her mother.

Director: Ethan Hawke
Executive Producer: Voytek Frykowski, Eric Groth, David J. Kingland, Ralph Winter, Brian Tetsuro Ivie, Gregory Daniel King, Shelby Gaines, Maya Hawke
Screenwriter: Shelby Gaines, Ethan Hawke
Distributor: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Production Co: Under the Influence Productions, Good Country Pictures, Renovo Media Group, Kingdom Story Company
Genre: Biography, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 3, 2024, Limited

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