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      Reservation Road

      R Released Oct 19, 2007 1 hr. 42 min. Drama List
      38% 112 Reviews Tomatometer 52% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score The fates of two men and their families converge following a tragic accident. Ethan Lerner (Joaquin Phoenix) and his family are on the way home from their son's cello recital. The same evening, law associate Dwight Arno (Mark Ruffalo) and his son are returning from a ballgame. In a flash, the unthinkable happens, and Ethan's son dies beneath the wheels of Dwight's car. Dwight speeds away, and Ethan, as the only witness to the tragedy, begins his quest for justice. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Apr 23 Buy Now

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      While the performances are fine, Reservation Road quickly adopts an excessively maudlin tone along with highly improbable plot turns.

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      Jon R I don't understand the critics and people who have issues with this movie. It is a story of tragic event and how all the parties are effected. Ruffalo and Phoenix kill it. If you expect plot twists you can't forsee, then don't watch movies of tragic events. Y'all haters are crazy. Give this film a shot. It's worth it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/22/22 Full Review Audience Member Excruciatingly slow but a pretty good story. Kinda depressing as well. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie's plot, plot twists and story line were trite and very predictable. Not very interesting. Spend two hours doing something else Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review cees t Nice thriller. Bit overdramatic. Overall 7.5/10 - Very good. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review michael j Just yet another example of why rotten tomatoes is so unreliable… Some of the films they've given 90% to are utter crap… This has some of the finest most realistic, almost Oscar worthy performances (especially the parents right after the accident scene ) that you will ever see… Get the critic somehow can't comprehend it… Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member What the Hell was that?! The trailer was SO promising and all the signs pointed to a great movie: Focus Features' near perfect track record, an incredible cast, and an intriguing premise. But the moment it starts, you know something is horribly wrong. The tone feels like made-for-TV B-movie schlock you swipe past on Netflix, the preformances are passionless despite ample material and just come off as angsty like these adults are acting like disgruntled teens, the writing is atrocious, completely unfocused and worst of all, the film's unintentionally hilarious when it should be devastating (when the kid says "ow" while another kid is brutally murdered at the same time, the confusingly abrupt ending cut to credits at the weirdest point, Joaquin Phoenix's "tough guy" voice, Mark Ruffalo's bored whining) and of course the plot is unrealistic and doesn't go anywhere convincing for a second, it just comes off as convenient. Just, holy shit, what the Hell happened here?! I was preparing to give it a 4, but the longer I talked about what it did wrong, the more convinced I was that it was a 3/10. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: B Feb 18, 2012 Full Review David Fear Time Out Rated: 1/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Hank Sartin Time Out Rated: 2/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Where it fails is in its documentary approach at portraying the mental aftermath of a tragedy and the dearth of plausible satisfaction for the conclusion. Rated: 6/10 Nov 27, 2020 Full Review Mike D'Angelo Esquire Magazine Reservation Road, in its offhanded way, depicts the world of the reasonably affluent 21st-century American more accurately than any other recent film I can think of. Oct 18, 2018 Full Review Kelly Vance East Bay Express What did we do to deserve these grief-counselor filmmakers? They seem to think they can express something that we cannot, and they're so persistent. It's enough to make us want to run away from home. Apr 28, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis The fates of two men and their families converge following a tragic accident. Ethan Lerner (Joaquin Phoenix) and his family are on the way home from their son's cello recital. The same evening, law associate Dwight Arno (Mark Ruffalo) and his son are returning from a ballgame. In a flash, the unthinkable happens, and Ethan's son dies beneath the wheels of Dwight's car. Dwight speeds away, and Ethan, as the only witness to the tragedy, begins his quest for justice.
      Director
      Terry George
      Executive Producer
      Dean M. Leavitt, Gina Resnick
      Screenwriter
      Terry George, John Burnham Schwartz
      Distributor
      Focus Features
      Production Co
      Volume One, Focus Features, Reservation Road, Random House Films
      Rating
      R (Some Disturbing Images|Language)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 19, 2007, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 8, 2015
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $101.4K
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