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07/29/06
Three Days of Rain (2002)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:4
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.3/10
Synopsis: Three Days of Rain is a compelling and humorous feature film inspired by six short stories from the great, 19th century Russian writer, Anton Chekhov. Writer and director Michael Meredith... [More]
Starring: Peter Falk, Don Meredith, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari
Reviews for Three Days of Rain
1 - 11 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Meredith has created a mood piece that avoids self-indulgence as it explores the self-indulgent nature of a handful of diverse people, caught up in the major and minor miseries of life's foolish ironies and genuine woes.
07/21/06
Rain strives for a Magnolia-type tapestry of quiet desperation. But after 90 unremitting minutes of badly acted, atrociously written histrionic misery, pic leaves one praying for frogs.
07/20/06
Top CriticA hypnotic mood piece -- where characters’ blank existential stares are framed through rain-beaded car windows -- and a murky riff on urban Midwestern ennui (by way of the Russian steppes).
07/20/06
It's simply a pleasure watching these seasoned pros, a collection of recognizable faces, if not exactly household names, massage these characters and bring them and their stories to life.
06/24/06
As a filmmaker, Meredith has a strong, if derivative, visual sense, although his screenplay is packed with too many clichés and familiar riffs.
03/11/06
In the genre of interlocking stories about lonely lives, Three Days of Rain is only a sketch compared to the power of Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives, which continues to grow in my memory.
12/08/05
Top CriticThe ends of each story work beautifully, but getting there requires traveling some washed-out roads, despite the imprimatur of executive producer Wim Wenders.
09/30/05
A well-written and -acted drama that's also unrelentingly grim.
09/30/05
Inspired by Chekhov's short stories, Three Days of Rain belongs to the now-familiar genre of overlapping tales of urban desperation.
09/30/05
Top CriticThe real subversion is director Michael Meredith's insistence on not capturing interactions between human beings in a frame; with some forethought he could have filmed the actors individually and spliced.
09/27/05
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