One More Time
Highlights:
Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatraesque crooner and notorious ladies man Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Matters are complicated when his punk rocker daughter Jude arrives in need of a place to stay and burdened with problems of her own....including a rivalry with her overachieving sister, her own ruinous love life, and above all, a fraught relationship with her famous father.
Director:
Robert Edwards
Cast:
Christopher Walken, Amber Heard, Kelli Garner
Screenplay:
Robert Edwards
Screening Date:
Apr 02, 2016
Studio:
Starz Digital Media
Running Time:
98 minutes
| Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Poor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24.4% | 17.8% | 40.0% | 8.9% | 8.9% |
“ Held my attention as it was an interesting character study. Excellent acting.”
“Yes, as per discussion this would have been a great stage play, but it’s not a bad movie either. Walken is quintessential Walken and Amber Heard is great, she could have been – and we’ve seen ‘lost daugheters’ end up as a cliché.”
“Christopher Walken can still deliver his lines in a way no one else does, his phrasing is fabulous and original. I love the writing for this film and the dinner conversation when everyone talks over one another. (Very Woody Allen or Robert Altman) Nice shots of the Hamptons.”
“This was a very boring film! Sorry that Christopher Walken got roped into this.”
“Enough of the road trips! Too much scenery! Jude had the worst hair I’ve every seen on film.”
Very well written movie, although visually the most interesting moments are the album covers and the Andy Warwhol-like photos on the living room wall.”
“Another dysfunctional family saga. Saved only by Christopher Walken’s performance.”
“One of the best films for people of that age. 60’s or 70’s age. Family dynamics remain constant. Unsolved issues just cycle round and round. Even the shrink was a contributor of negative behavior. Money cannot make you happy but they suffered in style. The visuals in the final credits were great. There is some resolution at the end when Jude heads west, or at least out from that situation.
“Finally a dysfunctional family film I will definitely recommend. Tired of War and Superhero movies. Refreshing change of pace. Thank you”
“Christopher Walken is very talented and I felt he propelled the film.”
“Sorry to say I should have stayed in bed this rainy AM. If I had the energy there might be a lot to analyze about the relationships but I really didn’t care about Jude. Very dysfunctional family. Best part of the production was the album covers showing Christopher Walken through the decades. Best scene was when Corine tells Lucille off. This felt like a vanity piece and vehicle for McGinty’s music. The writer took a bad situation and Jude got better at the end but too long to get there. Walken good as always with that deadpan delivery. Haven’t we had enough of shrinks sleeping with their patients and the ‘violet silk’ wasn’t the ‘velvet frog.’”
“Held my attention, but it sure made me appreciate my functional family.”
“I loved this film. Wise, personal and smart. Beautifully written and great cast. May be my personal favorite film of the year for MEA.”
“Is there a genre for dysfunctional family films? If so this would be one of my favorites. Although the Thanksgiving movie we saw with Peter Bogdanovitch was pretty good.” Ed. Note: The film was entitled COLD TURKEY, 2013.
“I liked the movie as well, although it walks a delicate line between satire (album covers) and serious issues - infidelity, drug use, and the worst Dad ever.”
“My favorite part about this movie was the set decoration and the graphics. (Loved those album covers!) For me, it was a pre-coming of age film. Stuck too long in the same spot before the young woman makes a move away from pop. Interesting that she can only call him pop as she sets out to put a continent between them.”
“I could watch Christopher Walken read the phone book. Yes, he’s a totally reprehensible Dad and Husband so it’s understandable that he’s not a likeable character in a film lacking in likeable characters. Wish we could have seen Jude really sing the Montreal song in LA, would have been a much more hopeful and satisfying ending.”
“Making Walken aware of his own inadequacies as a husband/father doen’t make them acceptable. He still made one mess of a family.”
“Loved all the Sinatra references, and this could have been a great spoof of the music industry, but I guess that’s a different movie.”
“This comes sooooo close to being a really clever movie. Nice characters – great cast in supporting roles – Ann Magnusen and Oliver Platt. Just needed some complexity and depth.”
“OK, not ‘ORDINARY PEOPLE,’ if anything these are very unordinary people, but fun to watch, some clever gags and dialogue.”
If you'd like to know more about the film...
One More Time features Christopher Walken, an actor who has appeared in over a hundred movies and in turn has created an notable image of himself. The image is tied largely to the roles he has played and the way he has played them. The link below leads to an article which discusses how despite the way he is portayed he finds himself to be a "regular guy".
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/21/christopher-walken-im-a-regu...
One notable aspect of famous musicians that this film makes a point to highlight is the often frivolous love life they have. Quite a few musicans, such as the one portayed in the film by Christopher Walken, have been notable for having both multiple marragies and additional relationship on the side. The links below lead to several examples in which this is looked into.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/frank-sinatra-love-marri...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pat-gallagher/post-50-rock-star-marriages_...
Listed below is some interesting trivia on the director of the film, Robert Edwards.
- His father - a career soldier who served two tours in Vietnam - is portrayed by Dylan Walsh in Mel Gibson's film, We Were Soldiers (2002).
- Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Edwards was an Airborne Ranger-qualified infantry and intelligence officer in the US Army for six and a half years, and served as a captain in a parachute infantry regiment in Iraq in the first Gulf war.
- He attended high school in Hawaii with Barack Obama.
