A lawyer on the edge of madness decides to disassociate himself from his own life.A lawyer on the edge of madness decides to disassociate himself from his own life.A lawyer on the edge of madness decides to disassociate himself from his own life.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Derek Alvarado
- Male Police Officer
- (as Derek Weston)
Michael Balin
- Cop
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- E.L. Doctorow
- Robin Swicord
- Nathaniel Hawthorne(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaFilmed in 20 days.
- GoofsThe train Wakefield boarded from Grand Central was a diesel hauled train. A power outage might have affected the train's motion (electric trains stalled ahead etc), but it would not have affected the lights in the train given that the power comes from the diesel locomotive.
- Quotes
Howard Wakefield: People will say that I left my wife and I suppose, as a factual matter, I did, but where was the intentionality? I had no thought of deserting her.
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Could have been more interesting
Wakefield is a film starring Bryan Cranston as the man who hides in a garage for months looking at the events in his house and everyone thinking he's missing. Basically, he's looking at his life without him.
It's an interesting premise on it's own, but the movie never really does anything about that and the plot barely goes anywhere through the entire movie. And yeah, don't expect much of a resolution at the end. This is something that works on paper, but doesn't translate to the screen very well. One of the biggest problems is also a lack of interesting and creative direction. If a director made it stranger and more unique, it would have been a lot more interesting. This way, it just doesn't stick out. But still, it's filled with powerful performances, especially from Bryan Cranston, who never fails to impress and pretty much carries the entire movie with his performance and he might be one of the few reasons it wasn't completely uninteresting. The premise itself, a few interesting but not memorable enough moments and the premise are what saves this movie from being bad. But it's not particularly good either.
While the run-time isn't long the movie is longer than it should be and by the last third the end can't come soon enough. Only watch if you're a big fan of Cranston. Other than that, you won't find much here.
It's an interesting premise on it's own, but the movie never really does anything about that and the plot barely goes anywhere through the entire movie. And yeah, don't expect much of a resolution at the end. This is something that works on paper, but doesn't translate to the screen very well. One of the biggest problems is also a lack of interesting and creative direction. If a director made it stranger and more unique, it would have been a lot more interesting. This way, it just doesn't stick out. But still, it's filled with powerful performances, especially from Bryan Cranston, who never fails to impress and pretty much carries the entire movie with his performance and he might be one of the few reasons it wasn't completely uninteresting. The premise itself, a few interesting but not memorable enough moments and the premise are what saves this movie from being bad. But it's not particularly good either.
While the run-time isn't long the movie is longer than it should be and by the last third the end can't come soon enough. Only watch if you're a big fan of Cranston. Other than that, you won't find much here.
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- Nov 6, 2017
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- Language
- Also known as
- У всьому винен єнот
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $262,599
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,299
- May 21, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $798,214
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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