The Safety of Objects

UNINVOLVING STORY OF THE INTERMINGLING OF SOME SUBURBANITE FAMILIES. VERY WELL ACTED BUT VERY EMPTY AND UNFEELING. WAY LOO LONG FOR IT'S OWN GOOD, CONFUSINGLY DIRECTED.... Full review

UNINVOLVING STORY OF THE INTERMINGLING OF SOME SUBURBANITE FAMILIES. VERY WELL ACTED BUT VERY EMPTY AND UNFEELING. WAY LOO LONG FOR IT'S OWN GOOD, CONFUSINGLY DIRECTED.... Full review

This movie is a fine example that an all-star cast is not always a good indicator of a good movie. I love watching Dermot Mulroney's stuff and even his good looks can't save this movie. I thought about the point of... Full review

This movie is a fine example that an all-star cast is not always a good indicator of a good movie. I love watching Dermot Mulroney's stuff and even his good looks can't save this movie. I thought about the point of... Full review

I thought this was an excellent movie. very well acted and the way that everyone's lives were intertwined was effortless. for a 2 hour movie, it kept me watching for every minute. It was very real and refreshing as well as... Full review

I thought this was an excellent movie. very well acted and the way that everyone's lives were intertwined was effortless. for a 2 hour movie, it kept me watching for every minute. It was very real and refreshing as well as... Full review

I'm some what disappointed considering the actors involved with this one. There was no real plot and the connections left one to wonder if there were any connections. So we see a murderer go unpunished, a disappointed employee who can't handle... Full review

There has been much talk of how the film represents (or apparently misrepresents) the American psyche but you don't have to be an American to empathise, or indeed sympathise, with these characters. Like it or not, all families are dysfunctional; we... Full review

"It's a life you've made," one of the characters in The Safety of Objects muses at one point. "Don't act like it's not yours." In this small indie picture by Rose Troche (Go Fish, Bedrooms and Hallways), four families struggle with... Full review

an interesting story and well acted. background music sometimes drowns out actors speaking.aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa... Full review

While characters are well observed and superbly delivered by a class A cast, the script has them performing perfunctory tricks of dysfunction for our ever deepening depression. I found myself irritated and bored by the structure of the film and its inert style, which continues the way it begins, juxtaposing scenes of apparent profundity ... Full Review

The climax and ensuing conclusion satisfy, although it seems as though all the ends are tidied up far too neatly. Much of time, the action becomes just plain dull and repetitive. ... Full Review

The other, The Safety of Objects , tried to turn her first short story collection into a Short Cuts -esque film starring Glenn Close and Dermot Mulroney. Find me a perfect young actor to play the oddball character of Jack, and I'll be very surprised. ... Full Review

Families who appreciate this movie may also appreciate The Ice Storm , The Safety of Objects , and sex, lies, and videotape . The acting is superb. The direction is exceptionally thoughtful and rich with detail. ... Full Review

Only the stories involving Clarkson and Close convey a sense of the time and tragicomedy, giving the film its short inch of grit. Top names include Glenn Close, Patricia Clarkson, Dermot Mulroney, Jessica Campbell, Joshua Jackson, Mary Kay Place and Moira Kelly, who play members of four middle-class families stumbling under the weight of debt and material possessions, only to discover they cannot assuage their pain and despair beneath the shaky trappings of "things. ... Full Review

In December 2005, the novelist and short story writer A.M. Homes ( The End of Alice , The Safety of Objects ) published a personal essay in The New Yorker about how, more than a decade earlier, the birth mother... ... Full Article

"The Safety of Objects" is an American suburban drama filled with subversive humor. We uncover the lives of four neighbouring families as they struggle to make honest human relationships. ... Full Article

Following up on her 1998 opus Bedrooms and Hallways, Rose Troche directs this ensemble film about suburbia and its discontents. Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) now lies in a coma, attentively nursed by his mother Esther (Glenn... ... Full Article

It begins with breakfast -- coffee, cereal and illicit Pop-Tarts sneaked into the toaster when Mom isn't looking; husbands heading off in their suits to work in the city. ... Full Article

A film that premiered in September 2001 at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Safety of Objects is based on a collection of short stories by A. ... Full Article

Films about women have been getting lots of notice of late, what with all those Oscar nominations for The Hours , Chicago , and Far from Heaven . But what about films by women? ... Full Article