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Weekly Archive > Weekend Read > 11/10/06
When Art Reflects Life Too Well
By peter clines
Come Early Morning
Joey Lauren Adams (also directed)
For Lucy (Ashley Judd), waking up with a hangover next to a strange man is an average weekend. Then she meets Cal (Jeffrey Donovan), the new guy in town, and begins to wonder about where her life has led her to. This first screenplay by actress Joey Lauren Adams, who also helmed, is filled with rich, character- driven moments and realistic lines for her cast, but sadly lacks a firm frame in which to mount them. The dialogue and characterizations are so authentic, in fact, that they often lack any of the exposition you'd generally have in a motion picture, leaving the audience in the dark about far too many hows, whys, and whens. The timeline is fuzzy, motivations sometimes come (painfully) from convenience rather than story, and the symbolism is vague at best. While far from a horrible film, Come Early Morning is also several drafts away from being a great one.
Come Early Morning
Roadside Attractions
Rated R; 95 min.
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Peter Clines has had a lifelong love affair with the movies. He grew up in New England, where he studied English literature and education, and now lives and writes somewhere in Southern California. If anyone knows exactly where, he would appreciate a few hints.
Come Early Morning courtesy Roadside Attractions
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