Burstyn gets to use her full bag of tricks to bring this crabby, hard-knocks survivor to life. Though she's aged 15 unflattering years, forced into awful old lady clothes and her character teeters on unsympathetic, the actress manages a rich, vanity-free performance, perhaps her best since "Requiem for a Dream."
The Stone Angel
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Canada, United Kingdom · 2007
Rated R · 1h 56m
Director Kari Skogland
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser, Kevin Zegers
Genre Drama
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The feisty Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. When her children decide to move her into a nursing home in her nineties, she is forced to come to terms with the harm she has caused her family, as she reconciles the exhilarating highs and the painful lows of her life.
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Prolific helmer Kari Skogland draws a fiery performance from vet Burstyn and a beguiling one from Christine Horne as the young Hagar. Yet the book's sheer "Giant"-like scope necessitates generational cross-cutting that's both rushed and cluttered; pic would have have been better served as a more leisurely miniseries.
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
Writer-director Kari Skogland adapts a beloved Canadian novel gracefully and with plenty of spunk, the same way its main character moves through the world from cradle to grave.
A lesson in the perils of trying to cram a hefty Canadian novel that spans decades into a movie running just under two hours.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
This multigenerational family history has enough gripping moments to hold your attention, but ultimately it leaves you frustrated by its failure to braid subplots and characters into a gripping narrative.
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