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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543243212
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 16, 2006
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 23902
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Adam Rapp's offbeat film about homecoming and reconciliation features an all-star cast including Will Ferrell (Old School) Zooey Deschanel (Almost Famous Elf) and Oscar® nominee Ed Harris (1998 Best Supporting Actor The Truman Show). When a book editor (Academy Award® nominee Amy Madigan ? 1985 Best Supporting Actress Twice in a Lifetime) offers to buy the love letters of Reese Holden's (Deschanel) parents Reese must return home to recover them only to find her widowed dad (Harris) golfing upstairs sleeping outside and living with roommates ? a pretty grad student (Amelia Warner) and a quirky wanna-be musician (Ferrell)! As Reese begins to understand her roots she learns to accept who she's become.System Requirements:Running Time: 98 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 024543243212 Manufacturer No: 2234321
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Reese (Zooey Deschanel, All the Real Girls) is a brusk barmaid/actress, toiling away in the East Village fringe circuit. Her father is reclusive J.D. Salinger-like author Don Holdin (Ed Harris, A History of Violence). Reese hasn't seen him for years. One night after a performance, an editor from a major publishing house (Amy Madigan, Carnivàle), offers $100,000 for the letters he and her late mother exchanged during their courtship. Reese turns her down flat. Eventually, she changes her mind and takes off for rural Michigan to retrieve them. She finds the disheveled, hard-drinking Don living with former student Shelly (Amelia Warner, Quills) and ex-Christian rocker Corbit (a disarmingly straight-faced Will Ferrell). It's a bizarre, if functional arrangement: Shelly cooks the meals, while Corbit serves as security guard. All try to make nice, but the coke-snorting, insult-flinging Reese won't have any of it. She just wants to find the letters and go. This turns out to be trickier than expected, especially once she actually sits down to read them. Directed by and adapted from his two-act play, Adam Rapp's Winter Passing is the kind of well-intentioned independent where longstanding family issues are solved in just a few days (to the gentle strains of Cat Power and the Shins). Nonetheless, it offers the unique opportunity to see Deschanel and Ferrell, Elf's charmingly mis-matched couple, cast against type. As expected, Harris provides solid support, while Warner's clear-eyed Shelly is the true heart of the story. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Rating:  - Winter Passing
I thought this movie had interesting characters. It is a little on the dark side of human nature and a relationship between a father and daughter. The actors do a marvelous job in their portrayal of characters. The story line kept my interest throughout.
Rating:  - One of the best movies I've seen in years.
I actually first came across this movie by accident one night when searching for movies involving Michigan on my DVR. It came up in the search results as being set in Michigan, so I recorded it just for that reason. I never knew the movie would end up becoming one of the best movies I'd ever seen.
To my knowledge, the first time I had seen anything Zooey Deschenel did was in last year's Sci Fi movie The Tin Man. She was good in that, but her performance there can't hold a candle to her performance in Winter Passing. She plays a the daughter of two authors that grew up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula who sort of just "left" home to find her way in New York. After her mom dies, a few events end with her going back to Michigan to see her dad, played by Ed Harris. She's not so shocked to find her dad has become a self-absorbed alcoholic, seemingly giving up on life after the death of his wife.
The movie sort of plays out as a coming of age movie, but from many different (and sometimes odd) angles. Zooey's character seems to not really care about much of anything except the here and now, her dad seems to dwell on the past and emotions between the two are a mish mash of regret, despair, depression and sadness. There may be some love in there, but you have to really dig deep to find it.
Winter Passing is dark... the atmosphere is gloomy and until you get to the end, you won't find yourself laughing too much at anything that goes on. Except for Will Ferrell's character. ... Read More
Rating:  - Depressing
I thought this was a depressing film. Ferrell was good, but the character of Resse, her father, and others was so bleak and dreary that it truly made this a miserable evening. Full stop.
Rating: - Coming home to daddy J. D. Salinger
Winter passing is yet another answer from a filmmaker who wishes there could be a film of Catcher in the Rye. I think Sallinger, quite inadvertently, by not allowing his seminal work that generation after generation discovers, to become a film, has inspired far more great cinema that had he just allowed it to happen years ago. Winter Passing is one such film. Had Sallinger allowed Catcher in the Rye to become a film, this work of simple sentimental art wold never have been made. For that I am happy Sallinger has stuck to his guns.
Other films like The Royal Tenenbaums and Finding Forester are two other films that come to mind as great works that fall along the same lines.
Zooey Deschanel, who is my favorite beautiful face out there right now also delivers a great performance. She is a real actress, not just a pretty head. Even her name was probably inspired by Salinger's Franny and Zooey. She was perfect in this film. Will Ferrell also gives a great subdued performance. He is obviously trying to make that transition to drama just as Adam Sander has been attempting. This was a good step in the right direction.
The film is one of those that requires re-watching again and again. It's a pleasure.
Rating: - Underrated
This is my first movie review, and I chose this one because I believe it has recieved unfairly poor reviews, even by actual movie critics. It is a tremendous movie in general. Strangely engaging and moving, with some excellent performances with all those involved. Harris and Deschanel are spectacular and Will Ferrell's first (and only as far as i know) performance in a drama was superb. He plays his character to a tee. A lonely, subdued, quirky and somewhat strange and random guy. Still manages to be quite funny in some scenes ie) Talking about his Christian Rock Group, Punching Pilot. The movie has a very somber and somewhat depressing atmosphere to it. You feel for these characters, especially Deschanel and come to appreciate the fact that no family is normal and perfect. We all have our faults and have made mistakes, but love and appreciation for what we have manages to come through. A refreshing movie if you ask me, and one that needs to be seen and appreciated by more people
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