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NUMBERS
Box Office: $850,758
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CAST & CREW
Paul Giamatti, Selma Blair, Mark Webber
Directed by Todd Solondz
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SYNOPSIS
Director Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, HAPPINESS) presents this characteristically bleak and darkly comic drama in two distinct parts. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong sexual content, language, and some drug use
RUNTIME
87 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jan 25, 2002
Video: Jul 16, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Fine Line Features
GENRE
Comedies, Dramas, Psychodrama, Families, Authors, Filmmakers
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Storytelling Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
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NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
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 "Seems based on ugly ideas instead of ugly behavior, as Happiness was... Hence, Storytelling is far more appealing."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Not a cozy or ingratiating work, but it's challenging, sometimes clever, and always interesting, and those are reasons enough to see it."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
 "Each story on its own could have been expanded and worked into a compelling single feature, but in its current incarnation, Storytelling never quite gets over its rather lopsided conception."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Provides an intriguing window into the imagination and hermetic analysis of Todd Solondz."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"The movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"Solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"I hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of High Art."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"While Solondz tries and tries hard, Storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket."
-- Ryan Cracknell, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"It’s a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer’s face and asks to be seen as hip, winking social commentary."
-- KJ Doughton, NITRATE ONLINE
"The film is all a little Lit Crit 101, but it's extremely well played and often very funny."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Fear permeates the whole of Stortelling, Todd Solondz' oftentimes funny, yet ultimately cowardly autocritique."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Storytelling feels slight."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining."
-- Andrew Howe, EFILMCRITIC.COM
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"Shrewd but pointless."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Too much of Storytelling moves away from Solondz's social critique, casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say, but he isn’t talking a talk that appeals to me."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"It’s as if Solondz had two ideas for two movies, couldn’t really figure out how to flesh either out, so he just slopped ‘em together here."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"Made me feel uneasy, even queasy, because [Solondz's] cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Director Todd Solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies, and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates."
-- Bryant Frazer, BRYANT FRAZER'S DEEP FOCUS
"I am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"The stories here suffer from the chosen format."
-- Lucas Hilderbrand, POPMATTERS
"Still pretentious and filled with subtext, but entertaining enough at 'face value' to recommend to anyone looking for something different."
-- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM
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ROTTEN 58%
Avg. Rating: 7/10 |
"An inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"By not averting his eyes, Solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable, the unacceptable, the unmentionable."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest."
-- Bob Graham, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"In his latest effort, Storytelling, Solondz has finally made a movie that isn't just offensive -- it also happens to be good."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"That Storytelling has value cannot be denied. Not even Solondz's thirst for controversy, sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"The leanest and meanest of Solondz's misanthropic comedies."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"Solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision, but that vision is beginning to feel, if not morally bankrupt, at least terribly monotonous."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
"The lower your expectations, the more you'll enjoy it."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"One of recent memory's most thoughtful films about art, ethics, and the cost of moral compromise."
-- Loren King, BOSTON GLOBE
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"With a confrontational stance, Todd Solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Storytelling" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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