The Longest Week

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The Longest Week
The Longest Week FilmPoster.jpeg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Glanz
Screenplay byPeter Glanz
Story by
  • Peter Glanz
  • Juan Iglesias
Produced by
Starring
Narrated by Larry Pine
Cinematography Ben Kutchins
Edited by Sarah Flack
Music byJay Israelson
Production
company
Distributed by Gravitas Ventures
Release date
  • September 5, 2014 (2014-09-05)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.5 million
Box office$49,490 [1]

The Longest Week is a 2014 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Glanz. The film stars Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde and Billy Crudup in the lead roles. It was produced by Uday Chopra, along with Neda Armian. [2] It is the first project of Yash Raj Film's subsidiary Hollywood production house YRF Entertainment. [3] The film received generally negative reviews from critics.

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Synopsis

Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parents’ prestigious Manhattan hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and in love.

Cast

Reception

Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 10% of 20 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 3.8/10. [4] According to Metacritic, which assigned the film a weighted average score of 34 out of 100 based on nine critics, the film received "generally unfavorable reviews". [5]

Film critic Peter Sobczynski gave the film a negative review, stating "unless your hunger for watching dimly conceived comedy dramas focusing on obnoxious and over-privileged jerks Coming to Terms with Things was not sated with the recent Last Weekend , most viewers will spend most of the running time wishing that they had simply stayed home and watched that Saved by the Bell docudrama that you DVR'd but haven't quite summoned up the courage to watch as of yet". [6]

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References

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  2. Neda Armian
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