Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | real life movie | Content
 | a fragile sentimental situation, the cold and damp atlantic NE weather, the feeling that your future hangs on someone's else decision, a small town...
I've been there, and this movie captures all the above perfectly. With the help of a haunting soundtrack rediscovering (discovering?) unknown classics like Patti Scialfa dishing out rumble doll just like if it was one of Bruce's gem. A movie to watch alone, on a late Sunday afternoon |
| Rating | | | Date | March 04, 2005 | | Summary | Lauren Holly is fantastic............ | Content
| Edward Burns (Life Or Something Like It, Confidence) directed, wrote and stars in this drama about Charlies (Burns) who comes back to his hometown after missing years on end when he went away. Now, he comes back and find that things have changed when his ex-girlfriend Claudia, played by Lauren Holly (Any Given Sunday, Dumb & Dumber) is now with his old buddy Michael, played by Jon Bon Jovi (Vampires: Los Muertos, Homegrown) and they are engaged but she doesnt have the ring yet. Charlie's return brings back the past into his and Claudia's relationship. Claudia had an abortion and after she had it she found out that she couldnt bare any children. Charlie wants her to leave town with her. Claudia's and Michael's relationship start to crumble. Fantatic performances by the 2 guys but what really made this movie shine was Lauren Holly...she nailed her part. Also starring Jennifer Esposito (Tv's Spin City, Dracula 2000), Connie Britton (Tv's Spin City) and Blythe Danner (Cruel Doubt, Meet The Fockers, Meet The Parents). Executice Produced by Robert Redford. Burns hits this one full on though it isnt his best movie he has done, still its a pretty good movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 19, 2003 | | Summary | not nescesarally his worst | Content
| five years ago, my wife brought this video home for us to watch,-after having brought the first two home for us to watch. this movie seemed somehow prophetic at the time. it was. she left me a month after we watched it. I found it dreary and depressing at the time,- and needless to say; - Ive had no desire to watch it since. but along with ALL his other movies, Ive ordered it on DVD from amazon[.com]. what I take away from it is that no-wheresville small towns CAN have attributes [its POSSIBLE], and edward burns himself. he plays more or less the same character in all of his films,- cool, detatched yet involved, and AWARELY EXPERIENCING life. above all-solid. his character in every film thinks and feels, yet at root, theres nothing thats going to DESTROY this guy. a man engaged in life for the long haul. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 16, 2003 | | Summary | Classics, all three of Ed Burns movies. | Content
| If your hesitant in spending $50+ on these three movies all I can say is DON"T BE. It will be the BEST money you spent on entertainment in a long time. Burns movies are the kind that make you think about the human tragedy. These are movies that you drink coffee and discuss in extreme detail. My sister sent me the book "Three Screenplays by Edward Burns". I started reading the plays and knew I had to see the movies. What stories, what writing. I feel his screenplays will become classics, with such plays as Millers, "Death of a Salesman." I can't wait for his next play. Thank god for Sundance and the opportunity given to let the public have the pleasure of seeing such fine work as Ed Burns. Being from Rockaway and leaving to make something of my life I can honestly say Burns depicted life in Rockaway in "No Looking Back" true in every detail. Even got the colors in the homes exactly as I remember them. These movies will have a permanent place in my collection. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 23, 2002 | | Summary | No Looking Back | Content
| Please, please, please release a soundtrack for this excellent film. |
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