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Assisted Living
Directed by
Elliot Greenebaum
R
2003
76m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.5
76%
81%
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"Assisted Living" chronicles a day in the life of Todd, a janitor who "Assisted Living" is shot and staged in a real nursing home and gains
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Cast of Assisted Living
Michael Bonsignore
Todd
Maggie Riley
Mrs. Pearlman
Nancy Jo Boone
Nancy Jo
Malerie Boone
Malerie
Clint Vaught
Hance Purcell
Gail Benedict
Kathy Hogan
Jose Albovias
Jose
Assisted Living Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Authentically unconventional -- opening in the form of an almost convincing mock documentary -- but it gradually evolves into something more deeply affecting.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Works more than it doesn't, though it's easy to conclude that the film exploits some of the elderly in the movie.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Assisted Living is a remarkably moving look at the prisons in our midst that most of us manage to ignore until we need them.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Tedious, film-school level exercise in self-indulgence and exploitation.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
In this lovely and loving film, the comedy is mellow and the mood is intimate.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The whimsy Greenebaum wants to construct can't match the terminal sadness that naturally takes over the film.
Newsday
John Anderson
Much more drama than fact, but it is the addition of real-life elements that give it such an unusual sense of authenticity and truth.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Parts of the film play like the world's slowest and most insensitive reality show.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Elliot Greenebaum's hardheaded comedy has the guardedly facetious tone of a fake documentary.
New York Post
Debra Birnbaum
Playing jokes on old people isn't funny.
Slant Magazine
Akiva Gottlieb
Greenebaum never molds his inchoate elements into any clear shape.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
It's a sensitive portrayal of a jolly, caring environment that unwittingly converts its charges into helpless infants.
Slate
David Edelstein
What gives Assisted Living its power is that the film was shot in a real home for the aged, and the patients -- with the exception of Riley's Mrs. Pearlman -- are genuine.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
This quiet, often meditative film is filled with observant, graceful touches that suggest the assured hand of a veteran filmmaker.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Fascinating experimental film.
Variety
Scott Foundas
What gives Assisted Living its unexpected weight is the spectacular turn by Riley, a former circus performer.
Village Voice
Peter L'Official
The problem with Greenebaum's approach is that in courting the confusion between real and constructed realities, he allows our emotional response to become similarly confused.
The Hollywood Reporter
Joe Mader
This art house fodder is just quirky and fresh enough to catch on with audiences.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
There is a tender, poignant story in here... worthy of a great 20-minute short, not enough to fill writer-director Elliot Greenebaum's rambling mock-documentary.
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