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Release Date
• USA: Feb 17, 2006
Budget USD 3,500,000
Official Website:
Winter Passing Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, some drug use and sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 38 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Stratus Film Co., Mint Pictures
Studio Yari Film Group
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• Winter Passing (2005)
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Genre: Drama
Tagline: Sometimes you go looking for something you want. . . and find what you need.
Plot: Adam Rapp makes his impressive feature film directorial debut with WINTER PASSING, an intimate, often bleak, but ultimately hopeful film about the importance of family, however dysfunctional. Zooey Deschanel carries the movie as Reese Holdin, a sullen, depressed, self-mutilating actress struggling to stay afloat in New York. When an aggressive editor (Amy Madigan) offers her a fat check in exchange for the love letters written by her famous writer parents, she returns to her father’s Michigan farm in search of a payday, but instead finds herself trying to connect with her estranged father (Ed Harris), as well as the odd surrogate family he’s assembled for himself. Rapp’s script is sharp and his direction is solid, but his greatest achievement may be the performances he coaxes from his talented cast. Ed Harris is powerful and moving as Don Holdin (whose last name makes the Salinger reference explicit), an erstwhile American icon who’s become alcoholic, reclusive, and borderline insane since the recent suicide of his wife. Will Ferrell shows off unexpected range with an effective, understated comic turn as Corbit, an odd former Christian rocker turned bodyguard and handyman, and Amelia Warner is engaging as Shelly, a pretty young former student who watches over Don and might or
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