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Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Nov 21, 2007

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

A-

Details Limited Release: Nov 23, 2007; Rated: PG-13; Length: 111 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Lauren Ambrose and Frank Langella

THE WRITE STUFF Lauren Ambrose is the grad student who breathes life back into a stagnant, aging writer (Frank Langella)... | Starting Out in the Evening, Lauren Ambrose

THE WRITE STUFF Lauren Ambrose is the grad student who breathes life back into a stagnant, aging writer (Frank Langella) in Starting Out in the Evening

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As Leonard Schiller, a once-revered, now quasi-forgotten literary lion of the Upper West Side, Frank Langella gives a performance that is so layered with mourning and wit and experience that, for once, an acting-showcase movie lives up to its promise. Schiller is measuring out his life in typewriter strokes when a brilliant, adoring graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) enters his world. Their relationship flirts with sex, but it's so much more. Andrew Wagner has made a lovely comedy of death and rebirth. A-

Originally posted Nov 21, 2007 Published in issue #966-967 Nov 30, 2007 Order article reprints

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