Searching for Debra Winger

In 1996's "The First Wives Club", Goldie Hawn, as an aging actress, has a piercingly perceptive line courtesy of screenwriter Robert Harling, "In Hollywood, women only have three ages: babe, district attorney, and 'Driving Miss Daisy'". Actress Rosanna Arquette has... Full review

I certainly appreciate what I believe Rosanna Arquette was trying to accomplish with this well intentioned documentary. Unfortunately the project was just not edited well enough nor focused enough on any particular issue faced by aging actresses to ever be... Full review

I applaud Rosanna Arquestte for approaching these topics and find it interesting to see these actresses as themselves. However, I find myself shaking my head at most of their responses to balancing their careers and motherhood. It is like they... Full review

Age is an actress worst nightmare, or so it appears to be the case that Rosanna Arquette explores in her interesting documentary "Searching for Debra Winger". In fact, most actresses working in movies seem to have a sort of "shelf... Full review

I don't think that Arquette's documentary was just a whine fest for rich liberal actresses. On the other hand, Debra Winger was a poor choice as her icon of a talented actress who was tossed by the wayside as she... Full review

Roseanne Arquette's personal documentary has a really great idea: several dozen top Hollywood actresses from the 70's, 80's and 90's discuss the difficulties facing women in Hollywood, particularly women over the age of forty. Interviewing them one-on-one or gathering them... Full review

I just want to thank Rosanna Arquette for what was one of the most intriguing documentaries about Hollywood I've seen. Although I live in Los Angeles, I do not work in the film industry, and in general tend to feel... Full review

I started out liking this film. Ms. Arquette was making some good points, talking to some very interesting actresses (Jane Fonda is a standout, as well as Debra Winger herself.) But this film could have easily been 20 minutes shorter--it just... Full review

I really looked forward to seeing this documentary in a theater ever since I first read about being it shown at Cannes a while back. Rosanna Arquette called it "Searching For Debra Winger" because Winger quit film acting due to... Full review

I wanted to like this movie, I really did, but it's a mess. As well-intentioned as is Roseanna Arquette, there's no real point to this film. Obviously, Arquette was able to secure the confessions of some of the finest actresses... Full review

I'm not saying that these aren't legitimate complaints, and I'm sure if I was a famous actress I would be consumed with these considerations as well. Unfortunately, with the exception of a few moments that are kind of touching ... Full Review

Debra Winger , star of some of the most treasured films of the 1980s--"Terms of Endearment," "Urban Cowboy," "An Officer and a Gentlemen" and three-time Academy Award nominee--walked away from filmmaking in 1995 to raise a family with husband actor-director... ... Full Article

In Hollywood, where a starlet's fame may be briefer than her high-school education, the effective career of an actress can be nasty, brutish, and short, or, in the lingo, "way harsh." ... Full Article

You'll never see an all- star cast like the one assembled here again, the primary reason being that they're here to complain -- justifiable so -- about the lack of roles available to them, among other things. ... Full Article

A s if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth-century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty-first-century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex-crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention-deficit-disordered-as if... ... Full Article

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright 2005 Filmcritic.com It's either sad or interesting or -- something -- when the only man in a movie is Roger Ebert. ... Full Article

Ally Sheedy: Fuckability. Searching for Debra Winger , though not a terribly focused documentary, is still a fascinating conversation with a multitude of actresses, from the very famous (Meg Ryan, Gwyneth Paltrow) to faves of indies and foreign films (Emmanuelle... ... Full Article