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Medicine for Melancholy
Directed by
Barry Jenkins
Not Rated
2008
88m
Drama
,
Romance
6.6
85%
65%
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Twenty-four hours in the tentative relationship of two young San Franciscans also dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying city.
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Cast of Medicine for Melancholy
Wyatt Cenac
Micah
Tracey Heggins
Jo
Elizabeth Acker
Housing Rights Committee Member
Melissa Bisagni
Cassandra Jay
DeMorge Brown
MOAD (voice)
Powell DeGrange
Housing Rights Committee Member
Chida Emeka
Housing Rights Committee Member
John Friedberg
Housing Rights Committee Member
Dana Julius
Housing Rights Committee Member
Ondine Kilker
Housing Rights Committee Member
Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Housing Rights Committee Member
Erin Klenow
Museum Staffer
Brent Weinbach
Waiter
Barry Jenkins
Director / Writer
Justin Barber
Producer
Medicine for Melancholy Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The actors are effortlessly engaging.
PopMatters
Bill Gibron
This is not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination. But there's really not enough here to remain memorable.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
[A] funny, lovely movie.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Writer-director Barry Jenkins demonstrates a rare ability to communicate a state of mind through images.
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
It's pretty in all the wrong ways: pretty slight, pretty preachy and pretty affected.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's an unassuming little piffle that wafts away while you're watching it.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Medicine for Melancholy reminds that much is possible with little.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
A hazy, nuanced and remarkably assured debut from filmmaker Barry Jenkins.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Smart, funny, and visually gorgeous, with the intimacy of a relationship drama and the resonance of a city portrait.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Nothing momentous happens -- nor do we expect it to -- but it is fun watching the two 20-somethings playing off each other.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Cenac is witty and Heggins has a wary stillness, but the movie itself seems too shy to let them really engage each other.
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Nick Schager
Concluding on a fittingly less-than-happy note, the promising but uneven film knows what it wants to say, if not, ultimately, exactly how to say it.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It is an exciting debut, and a film that, without exaggeration or false modesty, finds interest and feeling in the world just as it is.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
I'd describe it, in fact, as a film that doesn't quite work -- but the way it doesn't work is so distinctive and so interesting that it marks Jenkins as an exciting new face on the American indie scene.
AV Club
Noel Murray
A thoughtful, often poignant study of modern urban life and race.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The movie's ideas float atop it like whipped cream on coffee, but the actors' chemistry makes for a pleasant, unassuming walk-and-talk.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Mr. Jenkins and his co-leads, Mr. Cenac and Ms. Heggins, achieve stretches of buoyancy and brio in their search for a romantic epiphany that never comes.
Village Voice
Ernest Hardy
Jenkins's dialogue is crisp and witty, sounding and flowing the way real people speak. But it's also shrewdly nuanced.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
The occasional moments of genuine beauty are unsurprisingly visual but the ubiquitous editorializing urges us to dismiss the scant poetic potential.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A tasty slice of life, but one sliced thin enough to leave one feeling a tad undernourished.
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