The Architect (2006 film)

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The Architect
The Architect film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMatt Tauber
Written byMatt Tauber
Based onA stage play
by David Greig
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography John Bailey
Edited by Tom McArdle
Music by Marcelo Zarvos
Production
companies
Distributed by Magnolia Pictures
Release dates
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10 million
Box office$13,737 [1]

The Architect is a 2006 American drama film directed by Matt Tauber. Based on the 1996 play by David Greig, the plot is about architect Leo Waters (Anthony LaPaglia), who is confronted by angry residents of a housing complex he designed. The buildings have created a culture of crime in the neighborhood and the residents want them pulled down. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2006, and received a limited release in the United States on December 1, 2006.

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Plot

Leo Waters is a successful architect, who also teaches architecture at a local university. He has a strained relationship with his family, including his wife Julia, a housewife who spends her time tending to their luxurious modern house, their son Martin, who recently dropped out of college and has no interest to follow in his father's footsteps and become an architect, and their daughter Christina, whom he watches inappropriately at times.

Tonya Neely is a cleaning lady who lives in a state-funded high-rise public housing project Leo has designed several years ago in Chicago's South Side. Her son committed suicide and her eldest daughter is a young single mom. Meanwhile, Cammie, her youngest daughter attends a prestigious school on a scholarship and lives with a wealthy family Tonya's knows from her work.

Tonya leads a community effort to demolish the housing project and build a new better one instead. In an attempt to gain support for her cause, Tonya reaches out to Leo in a lecture and asks him to sign her petition calling for the demolition of the project. He initially defends his work, but later comes up with an idea on how to improve the project by modifying its current design without the need for a complete demolition. He later invites Tonya to his house to share his vision but she is appalled by his proposed approach, especially as he has not bothered to visit the project since it was first built.

Meanwhile, Martin travels to the housing project to see it for himself, and meets Shawn, young gay prostitute who lives in the project. Shawn had committed suicide by jumping off a roof of a building, in the same manner Tonya's own son killed himself.

Leo goes to the housing project to meet Tonya. He tell her that he agrees to sign her petition, but she informs him that the authorities have already agreed to demolish the project. Martin walks to the roof of one of the building where he unexpectedly bumps into his own father, and they share a silent emotional glaze.

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Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 11% of 37 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.2/10.The website's consensus reads: "A glum drama that's so self-affected it fails to affect." [2] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 47 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Architect". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  2. ↑ "The Architect". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  3. ↑ "The Architect". Metacritic . Retrieved February 29, 2024.
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