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Take
Directed by
Charles Oliver
R
2008
1h 38m
Drama
,
Crime
,
and more
5.8
45%
42%
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The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - who meet in tragedy. Years pass and they must come to terms with themselves and one another.
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Cast of Take
Minnie Driver
Ana
Jeremy Renner
Saul
Emily Harrison
Wendy
Rocky Marquette
Mark
Paul Schackman
Sam
Veronica Lauren
Female Patron
Louis Mandylor
Terrel
Allison Miller
Shoe Sales Girl
Bobby Coleman
Jesse
David Denman
Marty Nichols
Adam Rodriguez
Steven
Bill McKinney
Benjamin Gregor
Griff Furst
The Mechanic
Patrick Brennan
Incensed Man
Tom Schmid
Boss
Jessica Stier
Mrs. Bachanas
Patrick Dollaghan
Supervising Officer
Michael Ciulla
Chuck
Shane Woodson
Older Mechanic
Courtenay Taylor
Truck Driver
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Take Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Genelle Pugmire
Clean but adult-themed movie that takes an intense look at extreme forgiveness and restorative justice.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
The talky redemption element, however, ultimately feels artificially tacked on.
Film School Rejects
Cole Abaius
This is a slow burn of a film. You'll have to commit to seeing it, but the rewards for doing so are great.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
This is an uneven directorial debut -- but not an unaccomplished one. Oliver is a name to look out for -- it would be great to see what would happen if he worked with someone else's script.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Stylistically as well as thematically complex.
IndieWire
Leo Goldsmith
Oliver's film manages to grapple with some knotty questions about justice, even if it is not nearly as bold or ironic as Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine"
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Take is too enamored of its time-shifting gimmick and cheap suspense to ultimately have much impact.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bob Strauss
Charles Oliver's directing debut, Take, unfolds in sun-baked Southwestern locations, but it's a dreary affair all the same.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
This melodrama about capital punishment has no shades of gray, only beige.
Metromix.com
Geoff Berkshire
Resides in the same lives-intersect-through-tragedy wheelhouse as 21 Grams and Monster's Ball, without those films' romantic underpinnings or powerhouse performances.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
Take suffers from story overload, which is distracting.
Observer
Rex Reed
Obscured by ugly, dark photography, a jumbled script, mumbled performances, and clueless direction that make it impossible to see or hear a lot of what's going on even if you cared, the result is a film of monumental incompetence.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A frantic mother and a desperate criminal cross paths with devastating results in first-time writer and director Charles Oliver's emotionally charged drama.
Newsday
John Anderson
Dramatically, however, Take consistently works, and, with such a story, that's an amazing thing.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A woefully earnest indie about a crime and its aftermath.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
It's like a full-length public service announcement.
New York Times
Nathan Lee
If there is anything the cinema needed less than another angst-ridden, cross-cutting tragedy about crime, fate, memory and redemption, it's the kind shot in an ugly monochromatic palette like Take.
Village Voice
Ed Gonzalez
Oliver wants to defend restorative justice, but his interest in this form of victim-offender mediation registers only as an afterthought.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Oliver's climactic twist merely nullifies any engagement with the characters' prior plights.
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