Love and Death on Long Island

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For staid and proper author Giles De'Ath few things held a minute of surprise anymore. He leads a ...

Pros: Some decent acting, inklings of vague and dry humor
Cons: Slow-moving, this movie tries too hard to be "something"

As a Long Islander, Love & Death on Long Island caught my eye. I thought it would be interesting to see a film that takes place on this wonderful island that I grew up on. However, I remember hearing very little about the film so I had some...

Pros: Hurt is fantastic as the troubled Giles
Cons: Priestly is not so good as teen flick movie star

'Love and death on long island' is a story about a reclusive writer, Giles De'Ath, who goes to the cinema one day and inadvertantly sees an american high school movie -'Hotpants College II' starring Ronnie Bostock (played by Jason Priestly). He becomes...

Pros: Witty and Thought-provoking
Cons: Slow-paced

If you're looking for a cinematic trip to jostle, bump and shock you, "Love and Death on Long Island" is not the ship to board. This vessel goes on the calmest voyage, observing the workings of the human mind.

Steering clear of...

Pros: characters, story
Cons: repetitive humor, ending

This sleeper comes from writer/director Richard Kwietniowski, making his feature debut in both categories. The film tells the story of sheltered middle-aged English writer Giles De'Ath (John Hurt) who accidentally sees a bad American movie aimed at...

Pros: Sexual ambiguity
Cons: Subtle

A quaint story about a reclusive British writer who becomes infatuated with a young American actor and is drawn into the modern world. The laid back pace of the storyline becomes quite frustrating after a while, and it never picks up.

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Pros: Acting, intellect, gentility
Cons: Rather ambiguous finale

This is a smart, dry seriocomedy of cross-cultural, transgendered
romantic obsession. John Hurt portrays a legendary, cloistered
London writer-intellectual portentiously named Giles De'Ath (he
dubiously claims nobody's ribbed him about...

Pros: Poignant and funny. John Hurt gives the best performance of his career.
Cons: nothing

LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND: Drama. John Hurt gives one of the most startling and richest performances of the year as high brow British novelist, Giles De'Ath. Accidentally wandering into the wrong theatre in London, Giles is horrified to find himself...