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The Safety of Objects

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United Kingdom, United States, Canada · 2002
Rated R · 2h 1m
Director Rose Troche
Starring Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson, Jessica Campbell
Genre Drama

Based on a series of short stories, this film follows the lives of four suburban families each dealing with their own forms of loss and hardship. They discover the unique ways that grief can alienate others – but also bring people together.

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80

Salon by

All the acting in it is flawless, an overflowing handful of polished jewels.

63

Miami Herald by Connie Ogle

The Safety of Objects doesn't carry the power of Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm," a similarly themed work about WASPS in crisis. Objects is too artificial, clunky with too many preposterous situations.

40

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

Although it has moments of charm and poignancy -- this is one of Glenn Close's best hours -- the scheme and scope of the movie are just too darned obvious.

63

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Not a complete waste of time, but it doesn't make us FEEL the way better dramas do, and, in the end, it lacks the qualities that would make it memorable or powerful.

70

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

For all of Troche's skill and talent, The Safety of Objects (a splendid title) nevertheless tries to cover too much territory. In movies, as elsewhere, a little less sometimes can add up to a lot more.

50

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Troche's tone is so relentlessly, depressingly monotonous that the characters seem trapped in a narrow emotional range. They live out their miserable lives in one lachrymose sequence after another, and for us there is no relief.

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