Heights

A group of moody/cold newyorkers exposes themselves in a autumnal life. Looking for the lost passion and some "true" happines, with the stirring presence of non accepted sadness, this people will make you feel alive again.... Full review

Lots of talk and lots of handsome guys. Plus Glen Close with thick black hair! And that kiss on the roof! Hottie Rufus Wainwright as an added bonus. If only the Big Cup was still open.... Full review

HEIGHTS ***** A cross between 'Playing By Heart' and 'The Ice Storm', 'Heights' is a ferociously clever montage of character triumph and fumble, played within an aura of amorality and dark secrecy. Callaborators Chris Turrio and Amy Fox seem to... Full review

Heights is an independent film starring Glenn Close & featuring Up & coming actors from TV & film, Many of who I did not recognize.We follow a small group of people for one full day,In one way or another they... Full review

What I like about this film is that it moves like a panther. I feel like I'm outside of it but close enough to smell it. There is lots of intimacy and wonderful performances by everyone, some of which weren't... Full review

This atmospheric soap opera is a somewhat slow slog and the plot twist is not hard to guess. But, it is not without many redeeming qualities. Glenn Close does an excellent job as an over-the-top dramatic Broadway actress with a phillandering... Full review

I truly enjoyed this film. I had heard so much about it online and from friends, so I finally watched it the other night. I was very impressed. It's so nice to see Glenn Close back in the limelight this... Full review

The lead actress was too much of a valley girl to play an angsty, conflicted photog. The story was choppy and I felt something was missing. Glenn Close was the only saving grace - she's such an amazing actress and didn't... Full review

I was extremely suprised by this movie, considering the mixed reviews that it received. I thought that this movie was excellent, Glen Close better win the oscar this year, because it is a shame that she is still Oscarless. This movie... Full review

with interesting stories to tell and several comedic moments to keep the stories moving and delightfully fun. It's a very enjoyable film. The beautiful cinematography is a bonus.... Full review

reminiscent of Glenn Close....Terrio's film is ultimately an entertaining, momentarily powerful but very cynical Venn diagram.....become the fashionable approach to the downtown drama....produced by the late Ismail Merchant, "Heights" is a more calculated, boxed-in approach to the urban predicament, one....a fine slate of young actors.... ... Full Review

engrossing tales, the drama still lapses into the predictable (the secret harbored by James Marsden's troubled lawyer is particularly obvious).....But while filled with proficient performances.... ... Full Review

The ties that bind this drama's often-smug and off-putting characters are contrived What's worse, the film keeps teasing us with hints of Close playing Lady Macbeth. ... Full Review

a remarkable actress....The film is a rather intelligent mess, but a mess all the same -....its choppy direction....wouldn't have been great with a different director.... ... Full Review

Based on a play by Amy Fox, "Heights" is beautifully shot on location in New York and consistently well-acted, but it sticks a little too closely to the surface to be very compelling. Weeks shy of her wedding to Jonathan (James Marsden), a lawyer with the face and body of an underwear model with whom she seems to enjoy a companionable if somewhat passionless relationship, Isabel finds herself beset with obstacles to her nuptials. ... Full Review

A kitten that lost its eye after being shot in the head by a pellet gun has a new family. "We received dozens of calls from families interested in Wilbur's condition and the possibility of adopting him," Helen Woodward Animal... ... Full Article

What "Short Cuts" did with struggling lower-to-middle-class Californians, "Heights" does with upscale New Yorkersusing an ensemble cast to explore the ways that lives, even in a big city, can intertwine in a real small-world sort of way. ... Full Article

You have to admire a movie that casts Isabella Rossellini in a virtual cameo -- as a Vanity Fair editor -- George Segal as a TiVo-addicted rabbi and Eric Bogosian as the director of a Broadway production of "Macbeth." Walter ... Full Article

Published: Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:34 p.m. MDT Films like Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" and this year's art-house hit "Crash" prove it is possible for multi-storied pieces to work when they're populated with mostly unlikable characters. ... Full Article

Right off the bat, we're assaulted by Glenn Close's Broadway diva, who rages to her master class of wannabe thespians how we're none of us passionate anymore, how we substitute iced mochachinos for emotion, or some such hotheaded nonsense. ... Full Article

Up-and-coming New York City photographer Isabel (Elizabeth Banks) is engaged to a handsome lawyer (James Marsden as Jonathan) but having second thoughts about the union. Isabel's stage-and-screen celebrity mom Diana (Glenn Close) is in the midst of her own moral ... Full Article