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List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Color • Dolby • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 01 January, 2004 DVD Release : 13 September, 2005 |
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Winter Solstice description Title aside, Winter Solstice is set in the spring and summer of a small, pretty, and dull Northeastern town. Anthony LaPaglia eases comfortably into the role of a widower anxious about his two teenage boys growing up and slipping away from him in Josh Sternfeld's low-key drama. While the eldest (Aaron Stanford) yearns for something more, or at least something different, his younger brother (Mark Webber) is the poster child for underachievers: Unfocused and distracted, wound up yet unmotivated. Sternfeld creates a lovely texture of naturalism and the boys create a convincing brotherly vibe in shared glances and private jokes, but the lulling rhythms take over the film, even when Allison Janney arrives with her low-key nervous energy. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A Different Look at Grief |
| WINTER SOLSTICE is a film that moves somewhat slowly but in a purposeful way that has impact. Anthony La Paglia plays Jim Winters, a widower who owns a landscaping business. He's trying to raise two sons, Gabe (Aaron Stanford), a produce clerk at a supermarket who is wandering somewhat aimlessly through early adulthood, and Pete (Mark Webber), a high school slacker. The three move about, but barely say more than a sentence to each other. We get a sense of conflict and unresolved grief, but for most of the film we don't see it. We expect it to erupt when Gabe decides to move to Florida, knowing nothing about the state except it's warm, or why he wants to move, yet very little happens. We do get a sense of the bond between the two brothers and Jim begins to open up a bit when he meets Molly Pipkin (Allison Janey), a woman who is house-sitting for some friends and the two begin a friendship.
For some people the film is too slow and bland, but it works. We see grief from a different point of view. Some could see it as male inability to express grief, but I think if anything it shows how long it can take to heal, if we ever do heal from life's hurts. We also see a film where the writers could have taken a sentimental route but choose consistency instead which for this story is the better choice. There are some ways the film could have been expanded a bit. Pete has a new teacher who seems to be able to at least begin to get through to him, but we never see what happens and we want more. There also could be at a bit more interaction between Jim and Molly, and perhaps Molly and the boys. Still the film does work and it is a good effort. |
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