If John Cassavetes had lived long enough to shoot a Noah Baumbach script, the result would look something like
Daddy Longlegs (formerly titled
Go Get Some Rosemary). Keep in mind that Cassavetes’ career peaked during the 1970s, and this imaginary collaboration would have taken place some 20-30 years later. The feature-length debut of the Safdie brothers, who have established themselves as short-film specialists, is a mildly entertaining character study of an inept part-time father who alternately views his two sons as an audience or an inconvenience. It is the type of aggressively autobiographical text that, by all appearances, attempts to replicate act...
Released:
2010
Rated:
NR
Length:
98 mins