Loggerheads

Here the film is quite touching.....Mark Geary's soft music is used minimally as Kirkman often prefers a country song or two.....is rewarded with honest and pensive performances by a fine ensemble cast..... ... Full Review

Along with spotlighting the film's subtle technical artistry, including an intriguing look at each storyline's distinct color palette and "visual vocabulary," Kirkman also dissects his three-tiered narrative technique. According to Kirkman, permission to shoot in a picture-perfect church was rough sledding until the producers eventually won over the town naysayers. ... Full Review

All of the characters in Tim Kirkman's " Loggerheads " are good people, by their own lights. The movie is not about springing surprises on us, but about showing these people in a process of discovery. ... Full Review

There are exactly two reasons to see the plodding Loggerheads....Good Actresses Can't Clear Murky Gay Drama....Unfortunately, their tidy work doesn't lift this gay-themed movie, written and directed by Tim Kirkman, above itself..... ... Full Review

Loggerheads is a tiny wonder of a movie, beamed in from a time when good acting, good directing, good writing and a dose of intelligence were enough to satisfy most audiences. How these three stories are connected becomes evident within the movies first half-hour, and as a mystery story Loggerheads fails. ... Full Review

Kirkman makes interesting use of mirrors and natural light, and one of the most telling scenes shows the glow that enters the pastor's eyes as he watches a boy in a barbershop headed for a ballgame. Writer-director Tim Kirkman toggles among the three, which is somewhat confusing but makes for an emotional payoff. ... Full Review

Writer-director Tim Kirkman claims that Loggerheads is based on a true story, but one can only hope real-life events were not quite so soap-opera turgid or dull as this. You watch these sad souls going about their morose business and, instead of being fraught and moved by them, are merely bored stiff. ... Full Review

Tim Kirkman 's "Loggerheads," which is set in three North Carolina locales at millennium's end, is a delicate if somewhat soap-operatic Southern mood piece that occasionally clicks. Writer-director Kirkman weaves together, not always gracefully, three episodes focusing on three interconnected characters: a young, gay, HIV-infected man named Mark (Kip Pardue of "Remember the Titans"); his adoptive mother, Elizabeth (Tess Harper); and his birth mother, Grace ( Bonnie Hunt ), whom he's never met. ... Full Review

With a very strong ensemble cast and what appears to be an intelligent screenplay, Loggerheads could have been a moving tale of dissolving families and redemption. As impatient as I was with Loggerheads, I cant hate it. ... Full Review

It is a well-acted film, and almost a beautiful one at times. But Kirkman's attention to detail and his deft handling of the interlocking plots make the film worth seeing. ... Full Review