Last Weekend (2014 film)

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Last Weekend
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Directed by Tom Dolby
Tom Williams
Written by Tom Dolby
Produced by Mike S. Ryan
Starring Patricia Clarkson
Zachary Booth
Jayma Mays
Joseph Cross
Rutina Wesley
Fran Kranz
Devon Graye
Alexia Rasmussen
Julie Carmen
Judith Light
Chris Mulkey
CinematographyPaula Huidobro
Edited byMichael R. Miller
David Gray
Music by Stephen Barton
Distributed byIFC/Sundance Selects
Release date
  • May 2, 2014 (2014-05-02)(SFIFF)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$26,111 [1]

Last Weekend is a 2014 American comedy/drama film starring Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, and Joseph Cross. The film premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival on May 2, 2014. In May, the film was acquired for theatrical release and iTunes/VOD on August 29, 2014 by IFC/Sundance Selects. [2] The film will also open the Provincetown International Film Festival on June 18, 2014. [3] Last Weekend was filmed entirely on location in Lake Tahoe, California. It was the first feature film in thirteen years to be shot entirely in the area. [4]

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Synopsis

When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family on Labor Day weekend at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to fall apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family. [5]

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Reception

In the United States' review aggregator, the Rotten Tomatoes, in the score where the site staff categorizes the opinions of independent media and mainstream media only positive or negative, the film has an approval rating of 38% calculated based on 21 critics reviews. By comparison, with the same opinions being calculated using a weighted arithmetic mean, the score achieved is 4.3/10. [7]

On another aggregator, Metacritic, which calculates review scores using only a weighted arithmetic average of certain outlets across most mainstream media, has a score of 40/100, achieved based on 10 press ratings attached to the site , with the indication of "mixed or average reviews". [8]

In his review in Slant Magazine, Drew Hunt gave it a 1/4 rating saying that "the film's attempt at political commentary amounts to a half-baked treatise on good governance in the face of tyranny and socioeconomic exploitation." [9] In The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney said that it "is too muted in its catharsis and too overcrowded with superfluous characters to be fully satisfying, but the delicate central performance keeps it watchable." [10]

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References

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