Love Ranch (2010)

Drama

1 hr. 57 min.

Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci are an enterprising Nevada couple whose lives are irrevocably altered by a famous boxer.

Rated R for sexual content, pervasive language and some violence

Directed by: Taylor Hackford

Starring: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Bai Ling, Scout Taylor-Compton, Taryn Manning

Theatrical Release Date: 6/30/2010

Release Type: Limited

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Video/DVD Release Date: Not Yet Available

Distributor: E1 Entertainment

Country: USA

Language: English

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CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	5	...exists in that middle space of films that accurately reflect that which has little need to be reflected.
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips	6	...nothing in Love Ranch quite works, and only Mirren's valiant efforts to convey something of this character's inner life salvage bits and pieces of a protracted two-hour film.
New York Post Lou Lumenick	6	Mirren is such a commanding presence she doesn't need the melodramatic filigree of Mark Jacobson's script to convey the yearnings stirred by [the characters]...
Slant Magazine Andrew Schenker	3	Rather than try to downplay the laughable dialogue, overwrought events and twice-underlined symbolism of Mark Jacobson's hackneyed script, director Taylor Hackford embraces them, bringing a portentous reverence to the characters' clichéd declarations, calling on a catalogue of dull-minded aesthetic touches to augment the drama of the film's key sequences and milking the screenplay's latent sentimentality for all it's worth.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	3	...gets bogged down in a super-tired plot...
New York Times Stephen Holden	4	...deteriorates into sudsy hokum that not even Ms. Mirren, with all her wiles, can redeem.
LA Weekly Melissa Anderson	3	The more riveting movie is the one that plays in your head as you imagine how Hackford talked Mirren into doing Love Ranch...
Village Voice Melissa Anderson	3	The more riveting movie is the one that plays in your head as you imagine how Hackford talked Mirren into doing Love Ranch...
Onion AV Club Scott Tobias	5	...feel(s) like a clumsy TV movie...
Variety Peter Debruge	5	...a tawdry look at the early days of Nevada's legalized brothel business that plays more like Lifetime fodder than the Martin Scorsese pictures that serve as its model.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	4.4
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