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Life During Wartime
Directed by
Todd Solondz
R
2009
1h 37m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.4
68%
47%
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Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
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Cast of Life During Wartime
Shirley Henderson
Joy Jordan
Michael Kenneth Williams
Allen
Ally Sheedy
Helen Jordan
Paul Reubens
Andy Kornbluth
Allison Janney
Trish Maplewood
Michael Lerner
Harvey
Dylan Riley Snyder
Timmy Maplewood
Ciarán Hinds
Bill Maplewood
Renée Taylor
Mona Jordan
Charlotte Rampling
Jacqueline
Rich Pecci
Mark
Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
Billy Maplewood
Gaby Hoffmann
Wanda
Emma Hinz
Chloe Maplewood
Rebecca Chiles
Hostess
Gabriel Quilichini
Waiter
Carmen Marie Colón Mejía
Sarah
Fernando Samalot
Eddie
Meng Ai
Jesse
Susan Pages
Bar Mitzvah Guest (uncredited)
Brian Tester
Dave (uncredited)
Guillermo Valedón
Bar Mitzvah Guy (uncredited)
Life During Wartime Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
Jennie Yabroff
Helen may not be for everyone, but to at least some of us, she's irresistible.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
A wonderful, must-own transfer by the Criterion Collection of one of last year's best films.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
I'd never have predicted something this mediocre.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
The daring director is still a fascinating craftsman, but now we don't feel welcome in his dollhouse.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Solondz has dropped off the radar of late, but the good news -- or bad news, if you've never warmed to his chilly touch -- is that this master of the jaundiced worldview is back on top of his game.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It's the kind of movie I don't so much hate as find not worthy of even discussing, Solondz quickly becoming a misery-selling afterthought I no longer want to give the time of day.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The question is: Who wants to watch these people?
Seattle Times
Michael Upchurch
Solondz, through the troubled voice of 13-year-old Timmy, does rigorous justice to the difficulties of forgiving and/or forgetting.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Lachman and Solondz have a gift for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and that ray of hope amid the hopelessness.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
[Solondz] seems mired in simply rehearsing his characters' most fatal flaws.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Todd Solondz keeps attempting the impossible and deserves credit for trying.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
For the first time in a long time, I'm not just curious about what this divisive director will do next but excited. It took going back to an old tune for Todd Solondz to find his voice again.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
At times, it makes you realize Solondz may be the closest heir we'll get to Robert Bresson, the French filmmaker of human despair and mysterious grace.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here [Solondz has] made a film that is sad without energy, dead without life. As a sequel to Happiness, it regards the same lives, then as tragedy, now as farce.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
[Solondz'] best to date...
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Derives its blackly comedic bite from being both tragic and immediate.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
A taut and tantalizing mix of salty bites and lazy blanks...
At the Movies
Michael Phillips
I can't stand the moral universe that we're dealing with here.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Not having been a big admirer of Happiness, I don't see the vast achievement in bringing that movie up to date, but a few of the performances and sequences resonate.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Mr. Solondz exaggerates in the direction of mockery, yes, but his lurid colors, emphatic musical effects and dead-center framing also betray a commitment to melodrama that can only be sincere.
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