The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Wow. What a terrible adaptation of a beautiful novel. Here are just a few gripes. - The screenwriter eliminated two major characters from the book. - Plot has been grotesquely altered. - Voiceovers sound as if they were directly lifted from... Full review

MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH is a truly 2009 "coming of age" story of three young people who meet in Pittsburgh and take a journey which will change their lives forever. The cast is superb; and I found Jon Foster's voice and performance... Full review

Based on the novel by Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is about the young son of a notorious gangster who spends his last teenage summer roaming around with two friends. The year is 1983, and young Art Bechstein (Jon Foster)... Full review

I am quite a fan of novelist/screenwriter Michael Chabon. His novel "Wonder Boys" became a fantastic movie by Curtis Hanson. His masterful novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" won the Pulitzer Prize a few years back, and he had... Full review

The cast and crew were very friendly, Boyd says.....The Grand Concourse at Station Square provides a perfect backdrop for the aftermath of Jane's (Sienna Miller) drunken rampage.....The rusting hulk of Carrie Furnace doubles as the "cloud factory," the main characters' favored rendezvous point --.... ... Full Review

Mysteries of Pittsburgh' lacks lyrical design....More enjoyable are the performances from the ever-reliable Sarsgaard and Miller, who ooze charisma even....while most of the film lacks the same..... ... Full Review

In truth, familiarity is the least of the movie's worries.....At best, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a troubled entertainment remarkable largely for its untapped potential;....Thurber struggles to nimbly execute the narrative's themes, twists and tonal shifts;....Only Sarsgaard, one of the industry's most reliable character actors, and Suvari, nailing all the right off-kilter notes, measure up.....but it's also a misguided head-spinner of conflicting tones, listless lead performances and dashed expectation ... Full Review

In truth, familiarity is the least of the movie's worries.....At best, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a troubled entertainment remarkable largely for its untapped potential;.... ... Full Review

Above all, the film lacks a soul.....that unfortunately befits a movie that's pretty lifeless itself..... ... Full Review

I was inspired by the new Cinematical series, Movies I Will Never See, but I had a hard time coming up with a movie I will absolutely, categorically never see, given the chance. ... Full Article

Washington, Jun 25 (ANI): Brit actress Sienna Miller has revealed that she agreed to a part in the flop movie 'The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh', in which she had to strip, only to get away from the media back home after... ... Full Article

"I was looking around and I look at my husband, who's got this great life, right?" Waldman says. As she describes it, the best-selling, literarily acclaimed author of "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," "Wonder Boys," "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and... ... Full Article

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Oh, to be a character in literature, especially modern literature, especially modern coming-of-age literature, in which everyone is young, careless and floating through a golden summer of bohemian adventure and deep, resonant sex, only to part on tremulous-but-grateful terms to... ... Full Article

"The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" is aptly named on so many levels. For instance, how did the young director of "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" get to adapt Pulitzer Prize-winning Pitt grad Michael Chabon's supposedly unfilmable debut novel? ... Full Article