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Maladies
A successful actor retires at a young age and lives in a small town with his deranged sister and his best friend. The film follows the foibles of its the main characters as they seek to resolve 'maladies' that make it difficult for them to relate with one another and cope with themselves.
10 August 1981, Mountain View, California, USA
27 January 1965, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
25 June 1940, Davenport, Iowa, USA
11 December 1971, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
23 March 1959, Miami, Florida, USA
30 January 1970, Norwich, Connecticut, USA
26 January 1949, San Francisco, California, USA
28 October 1992, Maryland, USA
March 13, 1945 in Hamilton, Ohio, USA
March 23, 2014
The only thing more notable than Maladies's pretentiousness is how harmless that pretentiousness feels.
March 21, 2014
This is Franco's second directorial collaboration with the artiste who goes by the name of Carter, and hopefully they won't push their luck further.
March 20, 2014
It courts pretension with blithe disregard at every turn.
March 20, 2014
Ultimately it adds to the eternally ongoing cinematic conversation about artists and the quirks (healthy and otherwise) that define them.
March 18, 2014
The social construction of illness is certainly a worthy topic, but Carter situates his characters far from any semblance of a plot and even further from his heart.
March 20, 2014
A pretentious head-scratcher involving would-be artistic expression, mental illness and shaving cream (don't ask).
September 14, 2016
Despite its big-name cast (Catherine Keener is on impressive form), most viewers will find it an impossibly pretentious, drifting picture that, while brimful of pseudo-philosophising, lacks substance where it matters.
March 19, 2014
Overrated, overexposed and overindulgent, James Franco is all over the place, like cow chips in the abandoned pasture of a derelict farm.
March 21, 2014
...we basically wanted to punch the film in the face.
March 21, 2014
"Maladies" remains on too low a boil to communicate any sense of stakes for the various characters. It seems to be trying to say something about creativity, and living one's life on one's own terms, but it's a muddle.
March 20, 2014
If there's any point to be made it's lost in a sea of meaningless quirk masking as profundity.
