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12/06/05
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On_Line (2002)
38 %
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Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 15
Rotten:24
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Theatrical Release: Jun 27, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $25,658
Synopsis: Set in Manhattan's cybersex industry, "On_Line" at first appears to be about people getting off without ever touching (if you've never done it you'll learn, from one explosively directed sequence, precisely how such a thing might... [More]
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau, Vanessa Ferlito, Isabel Gillies
Director: Jed Weintrob
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Reviews for On_Line
A [reasonably] compelling, refreshingly non-judgmental look at the newest phase of one-handed clapping.
01/21/05
Although far-fetched at times, On Line gives us likable enough characters and several laugh out loud moments. Director Jed Weintrob has a distinct visual flair.
05/08/04
With a fearlessness for being honest, the situations the characters find themselves in are embarrassing and laugh-out-loud funny.
03/28/04
The youthful cast is lively enough to make the enterprise almost work, presenting a time capsule of cyber- communication that should be more interesting 20 years from now.
09/11/03
A 90-minute hairy-palm horror show, one that will strike terror into the heart of anyone who shares a keyboard with a lonely, Web-crazed roommate.
08/15/03
Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a 'delete' key, we could be rid of them completely.
07/25/03
There's something so familiar and commonplace about this story and its characters -- and maybe that has something to do with how much the Internet is a part of our everyday lives -- it's hard to get particularly thrilled.
07/11/03
Top Critic It does a good job of portraying the day-to-day life of these online obsessives, but we realize eventually that they are more interesting because they are online.
07/11/03
Top Critic If you like scenes of characters sticking hands down their pants, this is the film for you.
07/10/03
On_Line is the kind of thing I dread -- a movie about digital technology directed by an expert in interactive media and video games.
07/03/03
Doomed by Weintrob's passion for the Web, his passionless characters are little more than manipulated 'bots' -- and audiences, absenting possible hipster appeal, may vote more zeroes than ones for this digital tale.
07/01/03
At its heart, On_Line is just an old-fashioned movie about people, relationships and making connections in an isolated world. And in this sense, the movie is very successful.
07/01/03
Take away the computers and DSL lines and it's the 1950s of Jules Feiffer and Mike Nichols and Elaine May all over again, without the shrewdness and bite.
06/27/03
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