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Jolene
Directed by
Dan Ireland
R
2008
2h 1m
Drama
6.4
48%
44%
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A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak.
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Cast of Jolene
Jessica Chastain
Jolene
Frances Fisher
Cindy
Rupert Friend
Coco Leger
Dermot Mulroney
Uncle Phil
Zeberiah Newman
Mickey
Chazz Palminteri
Sal Fontaine
Denise Richards
Marin
Theresa Russell
Aunt Kay
Michael Vartan
Brad
Shannon Whirry
Teacher
Mickey Cottrell
Dr. Bloomberg
Mary Jane Johnson
Mrs. Ames
Stephanie Likes
Kendra
Jose Rosete
Sid
Benjamin Mouton
Jimmy
Eddie Guerra
Frank
Amy Landers
Peggy
Jacqueline Torres
Rosie
Jennifer Pfalzgraff
Maya
Asher Angel
Brad Jr. (5 Years Old)
Avi Angel
Brad Jr. (7 months)
Jolene Ratings & Reviews
Observer
Rex Reed
The movie has been through as many hurdles getting here as dear, sweet Jolene, but sometimes the most engaging movies are the ones worth waiting for.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
So bad it's almost (but not quite) good, Dan Ireland's Jolene is an unusually elaborate and excruciatingly long vanity production...
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, "Jolene" remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Ms. Chastain digs deep. Surrendering to her character's smoky voice-over and disastrous judgment, the actress finds pockets of soul in a role that's part Jessica Rabbit, part Marilyn Monroe.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Chastain proves near-heroic embodying Jolene's innate strength and incremental wisdom. Yet she also makes us understand how the heroine's wobbly resistance to manipulative characters is overwhelmed time and again.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Vapid, convoluted, tedious and too episodic despite Jessica Chastain's charismatic performance as the seductive, wounded, insecure and lonely Jolene.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A road movie that charts the adventures of an orphan teenager as she experiments with sexuality, marriage, and adultery.
Movieline
Michelle Orange
Chastain, an incandescent redhead with a heart-shaped face and round, shining eyes, does more justice to the part than it deserves.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
Cruelly, the display of sorrow never takes command, with most of the film an unsatisfactory soap opera that never seizes an illuminating essence.
About.com
Marcy Dermansky
Chastain has long red hair, wide eyes, and an even wider smile. She is Jolene, of course, and she is appealing.
Slant Magazine
Glenn Heath Jr.
Jolene's main themes, including the manipulation of youth, the fragility of love, and the suppression of individuality, try to carry the wonky dialogue into complex territory.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Throughout, Chastain delivers a full-bodied debut performance, but she's ultimately stuck taking her wandering-soul protagonist far more seriously than it -- or the film -- deserves.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
This picaresque tale dawdles a bit, but Chastain keeps us rooting for Jolene's survival.
Variety
Rob Nelson
Though stretched to a two-hour run time, Doctorow's socially critical tale is reduced to queasy spectacle.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Lindy West
It's a mediocre movie with a very nice central performance.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
Based on an E.L. Doctorow short story, Jolene is an apt example of how stories about women who are in abusive relationships can be turned into sexual exploitation.
New York Press
Armond White
Downplaying Doctorow's condescending literary and class ironies, Ireland creates something more like a queer-inflected Candide.
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Louis Proyect
A picaresque tale of a young woman's sad passage through abuse marriages that retains the sardonic wit of the original story by E.L. Doctorow.
GreenCine
Sean Axmaker
[Jessica] Chastain does a great job of igniting Jolene's mix of street-wise survivalist instinct and romantic soul. Her performance anchors a film that has no solid grounding
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