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Old Joy

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NR,1hr 13min

Genre:

Drama

Released:

August 25, 2006

Director:

Kelly Reichardt

Distributor:

Kino International

Starring:

Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith ...more

Synopsis: Old Joy is writer/director Kelly Reichardt's long-awaited follow-up to her revered but underseen 1994 feature debut, River of Grass. (She directed a couple of shorts in the interim, including Ode, a Super-8 film inspired by the song "Ode to Bill.") Daniel London and cult folksinger Will Oldham star in the film as two old friends who go on a camping trip to a hot springs in the Cascade mountain range of Oregon. London's Mark is the responsible one with the modest house, the wife (who resents his gallivanting ... Full Synopsis

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	Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com Old Joy is only 76 minutes long, but it has the contemplative power of Buddhist meditation. Reichardt gives us long, stoned takes of rural roads; shots of birds, insects and slugs in the spectacular Oregon rain forest; interludes with Mark's dog, Lucy. Some viewers may well be bored, or monumentally irritated, by this. I found it masterly, riveting. Full Review Metascore ^® from metacritic.com 84 Universal Acclaim out of 100 Based on 24 critic reviews

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	Daniel London Mark Will Oldham Kurt Tanya Smith Tania, Tanya Lucy Lucy the Dog

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