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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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Limited Release: Nov 23, 2007; Rated: PG-13; Length: 111 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Lauren Ambrose and Frank Langella
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
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-
Posted Nov 21, 2007
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