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Genres:
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Drama
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Director:
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Mike Binder
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Actors:
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Jada Pinkett Smith,
Mike Binder,
Paul Butler,
Rae Allen,
Paula Newsome,
Camille LaChe Smith,
Adam Sandler,
Don Cheadle,
Liv Tyler,
Saffron Burrows,
Donald Sutherland,
Robert Klein,
Melinda Dillon,
Jonathan Banks,
John de Lancie
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)141.5
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Plot Summary:
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Alan Johnson has everything he needs to leave through mortal: a high-minded share out, a radiant and loving wife, and their wonderful children. In the future he feels removed because he finds having a dense-working commission and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to encircling it. Charlie Fineman, on the other jurisdiction, doesn't be struck by a job or a family. He utilized to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to withdraw from his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, an... d a chance disagreement one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems mature too much to deal with, Alan is exact to inform appropriate Charlie come out of his warm impenetrable depths.
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Reign Over Me
Claudia PuigIn Reign Over Me, a scruffy Adam Sandler bears a strong resemblance to the midcareer Bob Dylan. His performance as a sad and lost man is occasionally as poignant as one of the heart-wrenching songs on Dylan's seminal 1975 album Blood on the Tracks. Indeed, music from that era plays a big part in the film. The songs chosen for the score ??? rock ballads by Bruce Springsteen, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, The Pretenders, The Who and Pearl Jam ??? illuminate and amplify the darkly emotional mood.
The film meanders a bit and seems to lose some steam about halfway through. But the chemistry between Sandler and Don Cheadle keeps us engaged. Writer/director Mike Binder has fashioned a film that sensitively explores male friendship and the lingering effects of gr...
Reign Over Me
Kevin CrustLong live rock!!! (Cue accompanying fist pump with Bic lighter aloft) Be it dead or alive....
It's actually another song by the Who that inspires the title of writer-director Mike Binder's Reign Over Me but it seems appropriate to begin with a guttural, lung-clearing wail of some kind. From the opening, surreal scooter-eye view of Manhattan streetscapes accompanied by Graham Nash's Simple Man to its rousing closing credits, Reign is an ardent man-love ode to rock in both its soft and hard forms.
Don Cheadle stars as Alan Johnson, a successful New York dentist, jolted out of a melancholia of indeterminate causes when he unexpectedly encounters Adam Sandler's Charlie Fineman, his college roommate with whom he'd lost contact. That Charlie does not reco...
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