Wakefield

We’ve all seen men like Howard Wakefield before. He’s the sort of well-off, white, middle-aged commuter who populates the gin-soaked pages of John Cheever novels and suburban movie satires like A Shock to the System.

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The idea of just walking away from a seemingly settled life is one that’s gotten a pretty good workout in both film and literature.

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'Breaking Bad' actor gives a tour de force performance as middle-aged everyman who watches his life happen without him.

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The idea of just walking away from a seemingly settled life is one that’s gotten a pretty good workout in both film and literature.

2894d ago

'Breaking Bad' actor gives a tour de force performance as middle-aged everyman who watches his life happen without him.

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Swicord turns what could be a dark or one-note premise into a sometimes charming, sometimes heartbreaking meditation on a man’s loss of self after having set out to conquer the job, wife, house, and kids he thought would make him happy.

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The hammy Bryan Cranston performance is coming from the attic in Wakefield.

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The hammy Bryan Cranston performance is coming from the attic in Wakefield.

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Swicord turns what could be a dark or one-note premise into a sometimes charming, sometimes heartbreaking meditation on a man’s loss of self after having set out to conquer the job, wife, house, and kids he thought would make him happy.

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In what may as well be a one-man show, Bryan Cranston plays a husband and father who checks out of his own life, only to spy on the family he abandoned.

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Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner star in this film, adapted from an E.L. Doctorow story, about a man who withdraws from work and family.

2894d ago

In what may as well be a one-man show, Bryan Cranston plays a husband and father who checks out of his own life, only to spy on the family he abandoned.

2894d ago

Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner star in this film, adapted from an E.L. Doctorow story, about a man who withdraws from work and family.

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What’s most disheartening about “Wakefield” is that if you put in the investment to endure most of its character’s B.S. you have to expect some sort of payoff at the end.

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The film, scrupulously faithful to its source, is decidedly literary, but not in an especially satisfying way.

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The film, scrupulously faithful to its source, is decidedly literary, but not in an especially satisfying way.

2894d ago

What’s most disheartening about “Wakefield” is that if you put in the investment to endure most of its character’s B.S. you have to expect some sort of payoff at the end.

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The Breaking Bad star gives a showy performance as a businessman who leaves his job to hole himself away and spy on wife Jennifer Garner in this grating and bizarre adaptation of EL Doctorow’s short story.

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The Breaking Bad star gives a showy performance as a businessman who leaves his job to hole himself away and spy on wife Jennifer Garner in this grating and bizarre adaptation of EL Doctorow’s short story.

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Writer-director Robin Swicord’s film seems content to merely carry out its absurdist premise until the bitter end.

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Writer-director Robin Swicord’s film seems content to merely carry out its absurdist premise until the bitter end.

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