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CAST & CREW
Vera Farmiga, Dominick Lombardozzi, Jill Hennessy
Directed by Peter Mattei
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SYNOPSIS
Peter Mattei's depressing, bleakly humorous drama paints a grim portrait of life in the big city. The film follows nine confused and desperate New Yorkers who are looking for love in all the wrong places: an inexperienced prostitute (Vera Farmiga), a troubled contractor (Domenick Lombardozzi), an unstable housewife (Jill Hennessy), her repressed husband (Malcolm Gets), a smitten artist (Steve Buscemi), a beautiful gallery worker (Rosario Dawson), her free-spirited boyfriend (Adrien Grenier), a lonely psychic (Carol Kane), and a suicidal businessman (Michael Imperioli). As these characters listlessly bump into and out of one another's lives, it becomes painfully clear just how desperate they are to make a connection. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for a disturbing violent image, strong sexual content and language
RUNTIME
90 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 1, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
ThinkFilm
GENRE
Dramas, New York City, Dating
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Love in the Time of Money Site
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "[I]f you've been to more than one indie flick in your life, chances are you've already seen this kind of thing."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, DALLAS OBSERVER
 "The film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both Steve Buscemi and Rosario Dawson..."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"I'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept, but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché."
-- Connie Ogle, MIAMI HERALD
"It is a great character study that ranks with Paul Thomas Anderson's epic Magnolia."
-- Anthony Miele, FILM THREAT
"An undistinguished attempt to make a classic theater piece cinematic."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"Mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on, well, Love in the Time of Money."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"The film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive..."
-- Dan Fienberg, L.A. WEEKLY
"Watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say, when Carol Kane appears on the screen."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
"Absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel."
-- Mike D'Angelo, TIME OUT NEW YORK
"The latest vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"More whiny downer than corruscating commentary."
-- Erica Abeel, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
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-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
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"A very slow, uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"The riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make Love a joy to behold."
-- Erich Scholz, CITYSEARCH
"Mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from Stock Character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination."
-- Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE
"Anemic chronicle of money grubbing New Yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"If this is an example of the type of project that Robert Redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to, then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films."
-- Pam Grady, REEL.COM
"An intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"There has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently ... but Peter Mattei's Love in the Time of Money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive (if tragic) note."
-- Annlee Ellingson, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The parts are better than the whole (bizarre, funny, tragic - like love in New York)."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"It doesn't help that the director and cinematographer Stephen Kazmierski shoot on grungy video, giving the whole thing a dirty, tasteless feel."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"More concerned with its gimmicky tag-team structure of storytelling than it is with credible, engaging content."
-- E! ONLINE
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ROTTEN 8%
Avg. Rating: 3.5/10 |
"An exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"The overall fabric is hypnotic, and Mr. Mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy."
-- Tom Sime, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title, writer-director Peter Mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"A listless and desultory affair."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"A workshop mentality prevails."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Unfortunately, a cast of competent performers from movies, television and the theater are cast adrift in various New York City locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Despite impeccable acting ... and a script that takes some rather unexpected (even, at times, preposterous) turns, Love is just too, too precious in the end."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"The problems of the people in Love in the Time of Money are hardly specific to their era. They just have problems, which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Too clever by about nine-tenths."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"A work that lacks both a purpose and a strong pulse."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life, the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine."
-- Duane Byrge, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded, as if circularity itself indicated profundity."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
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* Certain "Love in the Time of Money" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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