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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

2002, Movie, 102 mins

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing: Review

Life tosses curve balls to a cross-section of New Yorkers, whose reactions range from serenity to self-destruction. A hotshot young lawyer (Matthew McConaughey) accidentally mows down a pedestrian on a deserted side street; a married college professor (John Turturro) embarks on an affair after being mugged; two young housekeepers (Clea DuVall, Tia Texada) dream about their futures until one nearly dies in an accident; and a insurance salesman (Alan Arkin) gets a co-worker fired (William Wise) out of sheer spite. Four different storylines occasionally overlap, and the fractured time scheme recalls Pulp Fiction, but where that film buzzed with juiced-up energy, this one glides calmly along to its quietly powerful end. Read the complete review for Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing: Cast & Details

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Matthew McConaughey: Troy
David Connolly: Owen
Joseph Siravo: Bureau Chief
A.D. Miles: Co-Worker
Sig Libowitz: Assitant Attorney
James Yaegashi: Legal Assistant

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I recently saw and loved the ... | Movie News | 8/4/2005
Question: I recently saw and loved the movie Crash, and was especially intrigued by the way all the stories intersected and converged. Could you possibly give me a list of some other films whose stories are structured in the same way? Answer: I certainly can: First, for the benefit of readers who haven't seen Crash (2005), its structure is one in which multiple narratives are developed simultaneously and overlay or intersect at key points before converging at the end. Unlike ensemble movies in which there's a main plot and a series of subplots, films like this give more or less equal weight to all the story strands and derive a significant part of their thematic power from the apparently random way in which different characters' destinies come together. To my mind, the greatest of all multiple-story narratives is read more

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