The Hawk Is Dying

Is translate perfectly in this beautiful lingering adaptation of the classic Harry Crews story. Paul, Michelle and Michael are outstanding.... Full review

Is translate perfectly in this beautiful lingering adaptation of the classic Harry Crews story. Paul, Michelle and Michael are outstanding.... Full review

i did not enjoy myself whilst i watched this movie. therefore the movie was not pleasing to me. i did not like this movie. i still do not like this movie. do not go and watch this movie.... Full review

I'm just giving this movie a bad rating because no will give it a changes. They didn’t spend a lot of money advertising the movie, therefore the move must be bad =PP... Full review

i did not enjoy myself whilst i watched this movie. therefore the movie was not pleasing to me. i did not like this movie. i still do not like this movie. do not go and watch this movie.... Full review

I'm just giving this movie a bad rating because no will give it a changes. They didn’t spend a lot of money advertising the movie, therefore the move must be bad =PP... Full review

I love Paul Giamatti, but the film didn't help him. He did his part in caring out his role in a daring and most intelligent manner. However, the story and the film direction led him to a dead end.... Full review

I love Paul Giamatti, but the film didn't help him. He did his part in caring out his role in a daring and most intelligent manner. However, the story and the film direction led him to a dead end.... Full review

More opaque than oblique, The Hawk Is Dying is a metaphorical mess....Clumsily adapted from the 1973 novel of the same name by Harry Crews, The Hawk Is Dying is the tragic tale of an auto-upholster obsessed with becoming a falconer -.... ... Full Review

But for all the effort Giamatti gives in making George a convincing character, the movie itself, never quite gets off the ground.....populating his film with an unlikely selection of misfits and "quirky" secondary characters.....Even so, his performance is riveting..... ... Full Review

The Hawk Is Dying is a fragile little movie, occasionally ridiculous....It stars beloved character actor Paul Giamatti, playing a custom-car-upholstery salesman who becomes convinced....Between the barrage of falconry facts and everyone's generally nonsensical behavior, The Hawk Is Dying almost begs to be mocked..... ... Full Review

And here's the rarest bird of all: it features the excellent Paul Giamatti's first ever truly overwrought performance. All too obviously adapted from a book, and clumsily so, dispatching any sort of cinematic language in favor of the all-too-typical "indie" style, which usually means overqualified actors staring pensively at objects and cinematography a shade darker than is truly necessary. ... Full Review

the wonderful, Oscar-nominated Paul Giamatti would lend his time and talent to this effort.....Animal lovers may cringe at the scenes in which a tethered hawk (or hawks, assuming there were stand-ins) frantically screams and struggles to break free of its trainer/hero's ropes..... ... Full Review

The overarching theme of Julian Goldberger's film, "The Hawk is Dying," is connection. Everyone needs something larger than themselves to connect with, in order to rise above the mundane details of everyday life. ... Full Article

"The Hawk is Dying" stars Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti ("Sideways") as a Gainesville Florida auto upholsterer who attempts to transcend his mundane life by taming a wild, red-tailed hawk. ... Full Article

JULIAN Goldberger's "The Hawk is Dying" is not an easy movie to watch, and it's far from perfect - but it does have an artsy integrity and a fascinatingly intense performance by Paul Giamatti as a depressed Florida man obsessed... ... Full Article

A man channels his feelings through an obsession with wild birds in this independent drama based on a novel by Harry Crews. Fortysomething George Gattling (Paul Giamatti) is an emotionally stunted man who makes his living doing auto upholstery and... ... Full Article

Strand Releasing has acquired the distribution rights to "The Hawk Is Dying" to release it in theaters by the next spring. A good move has been made by Strand Releasing. ... Full Article

By TED GELTNER Assistant features editor Published: Friday, December 2, 2005 at 6:01 a.m.Last Modified: Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 11:41 p.m.A little movie about Gainesville is about to be unveiled to the international film community. ... Full Article