Childhood's End (film)

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Childhood's End
Directed by Jeff Lipsky
Written byJeff Lipsky
Produced by Jason Kliot
Joana Vicente
Starring Sam Trammell
Reiko Aylesworth
CinematographyVictoria Ford
Edited bySabine Hoffman
Production
company
Open City
Distributed byPlainview Pictures
Release date
  • August 25, 1996 (1996-08-25)(Montreal World Film Festival)
Running time
90 minutes [1]
115 minutes [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Childhood's End is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeff Lipsky and featuring Sam Trammell and Reiko Aylesworth. It is Lipsky's feature directorial debut. [1]

Contents

Plot

Denise is displeased with Greg and has a relationship with another girl. Greg has his first sexual relationship with his friend's mother.

Cast

Release

The film was released at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 25, 1996. [2]

Reception

Emanuel Levy of Variety gave the film a mixed review, calling it "mildly engaging but ultimately frustrating." [2]

Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film a negative review and wrote that it "has the atmosphere of a tasteful upper-middle-class talk show, crammed with dialogue that is as dispassionate as it is savvy." [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Holden, Stephen (April 4, 1997). "Childhood's End". The New York Times. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Levy, Emanuel (September 23, 1996). "Childhood's End". Variety. Retrieved October 16, 2021.