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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: HD DVD
Brand: MAGNOLIA FILMS
EAN: 0876964000703
Feature: Anthony LaPaglia stars in The Architect, a harrowing and ultimately human story of two very different families. Leo Waters (LaPaglia) is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family living with his troubled wife, Julia (Isabella Rossellini), blossoming daughter, Christina (Hayden Panettiere) and conflicted son, Martin (Sebastian Stan). Tonya Neely (Viola Davis) is
Format: Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Magnolia
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Magnolia
MPN: 10070
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Magnolia
Release Date: December 05, 2006
Running Time: 82 minutes
Studio: Magnolia
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Features:- Anthony LaPaglia stars in The Architect, a harrowing and ultimately human story of two very different families. Leo Waters (LaPaglia) is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family living with his troubled wife, Julia (Isabella Rossellini), blossoming daughter, Christina (Hayden Panettiere) and conflicted son, Martin (Sebastian Stan). Tonya Neely (Viola Davis) is
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Anthony LaPaglia, an expert at playing the conflicted Everyman, notches another such character in The Architect, a low-budget adaptation of a play by David Greig. LaPaglia plays a Chicago architect, complacent in his teaching theories and obsessed with his scale models, who doesn't comprehend the effect of his designs on the people who actually live in his buildings. Case in point: an eighties-era housing project, now overrun by gangs, drugs, and despair. It's gotten so bad that resident Viola Davis (World Trade Center) is petitioning the city to tear the place down, and she's approached the architect about signing. Meanwhile, the movie ranges across the families of both characters, including LaPaglia's massively confused teenaged kids (Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan), both of whom are trying on unfamiliar sexual roles. Isabella Rossellini plays LaPaglia's dazed wife, who straightens up the house in order to stave off the unhappiness of her marriage. In short, there's a lot going on here, too much for the brief running time of the movie; these people tend to have emblematic traits and not much else. Enlivened by actors, that kind of thing can work better on stage than in film, where the material feels skeletal. LaPaglia and Davis are in excellent form, however, and earn some of the power of the final moments. --Robert Horton
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Anthony LaPaglia stars in THE ARCHITECT, a harrowing and ultimately human story of two very different families. Leo Waters (LaPaglia) is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family living with his troubled wife, Julia (Isabella Rossellini), blossoming daughter, Christina (Hayden Panettiere) and conflicted son, Martin (Sebastian Stan). Tonya Neely (Viola Davis) is an activist trying to keep her family safe while living in crime-infested housing projects. In her ongoing campaign to get the projects torn down and rebuilt, she seeks out Leo to obtain his signature on her petition to condemn the projects he designed.
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this movie was one of the most depressing I have seen in 10 years. The DVD jacket could be called "bait and switch". nothing was said about the lack of dimension of the characters. If looking for a good movie along this type that truly is a character study try "Ordinary People".
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Absolutely zero benefit from Blu-Ray on a movie like this, not to mention this movie just flat out stinks. I am all about the serious drama, but this was the serious sleeper, as in I could not stay awake...
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THE ARCHITECT is a film based on a play by David Grieg that deals with social class dichotomy, lack of communication in families, gender confrontations in youths, and coming to grips with decisions of the past that later haunt. Made on a budget less than a million dollars and shot in twenty days, this unique little movie packs a wallop in the most secretive and subtle way. Directed by Matt Tauber, who also wrote the screenplay with Grieg, it has a fascinating, if at times disconcerting, format ... Read More
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