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Slipstream
Description
The film is about an aging screenwrite named Felix Bonhoeffer. His life is in two states of exsistance: in reality and in his own head. Hired to write a murder mystery set in a desert diner but he unawares that his brain is on the verge of implosion. As a redult, Felix is confused when his characters start to turn up in his life, and vice versa.
The film is about an aging screenwrite named Felix Bonhoeffer. His life is in two states of exsistance: in reality and in his own head. Hired to write a murder mystery set in a desert diner but he unawares that his brain is on the verge of implosion. As a redult, Felix is confused when his characters start to turn up in his life, and vice versa.
Actors:
Kevin McCarthy,
Dean Bitter,
Lindsay Barth,
Riccardo Spinotti,
Jennifer Anne Franklin,
Lana Antonova,
Gary J. Wayton
Kevin McCarthy
15 February 1914, Seattle, Washington, USA
Dean Bitter
Lindsay Barth
Riccardo Spinotti
Jennifer Anne Franklin
Lana Antonova
18 November 1979, Saratov, Saratovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Gary J. Wayton
Director:
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
31 December 1937, Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Country:
United States
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October 28, 2007
A miserable mess of a stream-of-consciousness movie.
February 29, 2008
Alternately interesting and unwatchable.
October 26, 2007
Slipstream is an experiment in visual stream-of-consciousness, but stream-of-consciousness fares better as a literary form than a cinematic one.
October 28, 2007
What would have perhaps made an excellent short subject becomes a cumbersome, confusing and deeply unsatisfying mess of a vanity project.
New York Times
October 26, 2007
Slipstream is Anthony Hopkins's third film as a director and his first as a quasi-avant-garde filmmaker working well outside the mainstream.
April 12, 2016
Slipstream meanders into some lucidity by film's end, but it remains difficult to determine if it's a work born of genius or madness. The decision lies with the viewer.
Newark Star-Ledger
October 26, 2007
Slipstream ultimately winds up an avant-garde film that just ain't all that avant.
February 28, 2008
Slipstream is utterly unwatchable. I hated every minute of it.
October 26, 2007
Leave it to a 69-year-old actor to make the year's most experimental film.
Filmcritic.com
November 09, 2007
A Hopkins personal vanity project
October 26, 2007
At 96 minutes, this vanity/insanity project runs a bit long; five minutes would have been plenty.
AV Club
October 25, 2007
Either one of the most self-indulgent vanity projects in the history of the Hollywood star system, or a rare revealing look at a distinguished actor who usually keeps his real self out of the spotlight.