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A Slipping-Down Life
Directed by
Toni Kalem
R
1999
1h 49m
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6.1
27%
44%
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A shy, young woman, living a sheltered life in a small southern town, embarks on a journey to self-awareness when she falls in love with an eccentric rock star.
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Cast of A Slipping-Down Life
Lili Taylor
Evie Decker
Guy Pearce
Drumstrings Casey
Sara Rue
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Irma P. Hall
Clotelia
John Hawkes
David Elliot
Shawnee Smith
Faye-Jean Lindsay
Bruno Kirby
Kiddie Arcades Manager
Veronica Cartwright
Mrs. Casey
Tom Bower
Mr. Decker
Marshall Bell
Mr. Casey
Clea DuVall
Nurse
Margaret Bowman
Mrs. Harrison
A Slipping-Down Life Ratings & Reviews
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
It's too common to complain that a book is better than the movie. But in A Slipping-Down Life, the score trumps what's on screen as well.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The director deserves admiration for sticking to her guns, but here's a heretical notion: Maybe the producer's cut would have been a better movie.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Never cuts much deeper than its subject.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It's interesting, not fascinating, intriguing, not electrifying. But for those in the mood for an offbeat pleasure, A Slipping Down Life may well satisfy.
Seattle Times
Erik Lundegaard
Independent films like to equate smallness with authenticity, but sometimes, unfortunately, they're just small.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is not a great dramatic statement, but you know that from the modesty of the title. It is about movement in emotional waters that had long been still.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Weaves a fragile --- and often funny --- spell.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
What at first seems like observed, exaggerated truth soon reveals itself as a series of writerly conceits being followed doggedly to some logical conclusion.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
While the movie is content to be merely atmospheric, the performances convince you that here are two misfits who might be a perfect fit.
Dallas Morning News
Gary Dowell
A Slipping Down Life would disintegrate in a cloud of cutesy, melancholic whimsy if it weren't for the talent of its two leads.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Too precious, too self-conscious and far too enamored with itself to ever have any kind of genuine emotional truth.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Tom Horgen
Offers some egalitarian posturing, but squanders its message by placing capable actresses like Taylor and Hall into age-old, subservient roles.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
This is one of those rare dramas that drops us into the heart of the Dairy Queen/Bible Belt without seeming in the least patronizing or superior.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Has a lot going for it, but not nearly all it should have.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A perplexing, dark and brooding exercise.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
A predictable Up-With-People anthem.
Observer
Rex Reed
Just another tiny movie about tiny people that is destined to find a very tiny audience.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
[W]hat comes across on the printed page as eccentric and heartbreaking seems forced and self-consciously artsy on the screen.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A sluggish, tedious film about lost souls living dead-end lives in a dead-end town.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
The disorderly film merely chases its tail for the second half, going nowhere fast.
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