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  Cinema Spider - A Home at the End of the World
Orlando Sentinel 8/13/04 A Home at the End of the World
Boston Globe 7/30/04 A Home at the End of the World
Salon 7/23/04 "A Home at the End of the World"
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 "A Home at the End of the World" - Salon
One of the central ideas behind "A Home at the End of the World," which writer Michael Cunningham adapted from his novel of the same name, is that we're not just born into families -- we can fall into them, too, in any number of unlikely formations and permutations.
But "A Home at the End of the World" is one of those works that uses characters to explore an idea -- like puppets being moved around a vast, nebulous game board -- instead of merely allowing the theme to surface, almost imperceptibly, as a result of our involvement with the characters.
At the movie's end, nuance is all we have left; beyond the admirable efforts of some of the actors, the picture leaves behind nothing so human as a fingerprint.
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 Ending Revelations: A Home at the End of the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ending Revelations: A Home at the End of the World
Compelling is not necessarily the word that I would use to describe the end of Michael Cunningham's novel A Home at the End of the World.
Bobby recognizes, finally, at the end what he has been struggling with all his life when he says "We here are in the other world, a quieter place, more prone to forgiveness.
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 KINNOPIO - A Home at the End of the World
Home is not always where the heart is, in the most traditional sense, as this film shows, and more.
A Home at the End of the World, directed by Michael Mayer, is unique in a way that it deals with the loneliness and detachment one can feel at home, and the love and a sense of belonging that might be found in someone else’s.
It takes an open mind and an open heart to be able to begin the journey to the home at the end of the world, but if you are willing to follow, it’s a road worth exploring.
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 IGN: A Home at the End of the World Review
Home at the End of the World is the feature debut for director Michael Mayer.
Colin Farrell in A Home at the End of the World
At the end of the day, World is at times refreshingly different entertainment, but the film is just too imbalanced to sustain the interest of most audience members through its entire 95 minutes.
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 Mixed Reviews - A Home at the End of the World - reviewed by Gabriel Shanks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD is the finest cinematic study of relationships to come along in quite some time.
A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD is a contemplation about the potentiality of our existence, of the possibilities inherent in living a life...the idea that not just anything can happen, but everything can happen.
Chronicling over a dozen years in their lives, A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD measures the struggles of these three people to find a balance and future together as they grow up, change, and metastasize into a configuration outside of the mainstream...but not outside of a personal and recontexualized normalcy.
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 IONCINEMA.com presents: A Home at the End of the World (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Michael Cunningham’s openingly liberal text and gay subtext explores the essence of home, through the course of the film we see Bobby replace his lost family with the one belonging to his best friend.
Based on the novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World is the journey of a young man with the mind of an infant.
While A Home at the End of the World sets out to do the right thing, it ultimately doesn’t do it often enough, short-changing its characters with moments that lack the sincerity that the film deserves.
www.ioncinema.com /beta/review.php?id=79   (510 words)

  
 A Home at the End of the World
The only reason to see A Home at the End of the World is to watch Colin Farrell's performance.
The rest of A Home at the End of the World is not really worth talking about.
The first part of A Home at the End of the World takes place in 1974 Cleveland.
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 Uneven journey ‘Home at the End of the World’ - AT THE MOVIES - MSNBC.com
Uneven journey ‘Home at the End of the World’
Much ado has been made about a scene that was trimmed from “A Home at the End of the World” in which Colin Farrell bares all.
Its unevenness aside, “A Home at the End of the World” is an admirable debut, and it bodes well for Mayer if he chooses to make a second home for himself in film.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5480651   (774 words)

  
 TheMovieBoy Review - A Home at the End of the World (2004)
So much happens in "A Home at the End of the World" that the expansive premise is a near-impossible one to explain.
The thematic intentions are unclear, to be sure, but "A Home at the End of the World" still manages to win you over, albeit with reservations.
"A Home at the End of the World" stuffs too much into too restricted of a timeframe, but when the material sticks it has the ability to be magical.
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 A Home at the End of the World
A Home at the End of the World was made by Warner Independent Pictures, and that pretty well sums up its strengths and weaknesses.
Worse, although the actors do a magnificent job with the piffle, the characters hardly ever act the way real people do in the situations they are presented with.
Colin Farrell as Bobby, a dark, hipster living in the East Village during the early 1980s, in "A Home at the End of the World."
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 A Home at the End of the World DVD site
The Cast of A Home at the End of the World
A Home at the End of the World chronicles the lives of Bobby and Jonathan, two childhood friends who meet as students in a suburban Ohio school.
A Home at the End of the World was published in 1990, just as I was beginning my directing career in the New York theater.
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 washingtonpost.com: Film: A Home at the End of the World
Now he turns his skills to the cinema, making his directorial debut with the upcoming drama, "A Home at the End of the World," starring Colin Farrell.
Michael Mayer: "Spring Awakening" is a new musical with songs by Duncan Sheik, who composed the score for "A Home at the End of the World" and contributed two original songs that are in the film.
But the beautiful, deeply committed friendship between Jonathan and Bobby living together in their home at the end of the world is as beautiful a testament to commitment as I've ever seen.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A62462-2004Jul19?language=printer   (2489 words)

  
 A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD - DVD
Bobby is a hippie child of love and light who wanders through A Home at the End of the World like Tom Hulce's blithely retarded Dominick in Dominick and Eugene.
A Home at the End of the World clearly aspires to Jules and Jim, to Threesome, to Cabaret, to 1900, even, in its tale of two boys and a girl (Y Tu Mamá Tambien, The Dreamers) in close quarters.
A Home at the End of the World is this year's The Safety of Objects: it has a pedigree, and it's still a mutt.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/homeattheendoftheworld.htm   (652 words)

  
 A Home at the End of the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Home at the End of the World is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham, who also wrote the screenplay of the movie (directed by Michael Mayer).
Bobby had grown up in a home in suburban Cleveland where partying and drugs were a recurring theme.
He had already witnessed his beloved older brother's death in a home accident and his mother's death by the time he befriends Jonathan, who comes from a sheltered, but loving family.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Home_at_the_End_of_the_World   (322 words)

  
 A Home at the End of the World
by Michael Mayer, director of A Home at the End of the Wolrd
All the press releases for A Home at the End of the World will state that this is my first film.
Bobby is Jonathan's connection to a larger world, while Jonathan's family offers Bobby stability he's never known.
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 Amazon.com: A Home at the End of the World: A Novel: Books: Michael Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A Home at the End of the World: A Novel by Michael Cunningham
By the end I kind of felt that the characters' introspection was a guise for being well developed.
The gay world of the book's time also is lacking--it takes place at beginning of the age of AIDS and the end of libertine gay liberation.
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 Amazon.ca: A Home At The End Of The World: DVD: Michael Mayer,Colin Farrell,Matt Frewer,Sissy Spacek,Robin Wright ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Directed by Michael Mayer and based on The Hours author Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World chronicles the 1980s reunion of childhood best friends Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts).
In the end it resulted in him becoming this wonderful loving, caring adult that you can't help but love.
I cried at the end for his character the most, with Clare and Rebecca gone, and Jonathon ailing, I cried for what would be his life afterwards......
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 Amazon.co.uk: A Home at the End of the World (Essential.penguin): Books: Michael Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
‘A home at the end of the world’ is a fine example of this.
‘A home at the end of the world’ is an eye opener for those of us that insist on complicating our lives by focussing on the how’s, when’s & why’s that we forget to live in the now…
‘A home at the end of the world’ is an eye opener for those of us that insist on complicating their lives by focussing on the how’s, when’s & why’s that we forget to live in the now…
www.amazon.co.uk /Home-End-World-Essential-penguin/dp/0140299548   (779 words)

  
 A Home at the End of the World (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
A Home at the End of the World
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for A Home at the End of the World (2004)
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 A Movie Parable: A Home at the End of the World
Set in the 1980s, A Home at the End of the World takes us inside the lives of a trio of sexually confused people growing up in a world that provides no sense of guidance or direction.
It's difficult to know whether the filmmakers intend for us to celebrate the place they carve out for themselves or pity them for what they don't have.
When we respond to God's call, we are able to enter into a fellowship with God, with his son, Jesus Christ, and with all the saints who have likewise responded.
www.christiancritic.com /mov2004/homeend.asp   (572 words)

  
 BookBlog [dot net]: A Home at the End of the World Archives
A follow-up question related to the book: A couple of people mentioned during the discussion that the novel was not being their favorite book ever, or even a book they liked, but still mentioned that it was a worthwhile read.
Soon many people will know A Home at the End of the World from its screen adaptation (as we discussed).
November 17, 2003, for A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
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 Amazon.ca: A Home at the End of the World: Books: Michael Cunningham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Two very different boys are drawn together by their oppressive home lives and by a connection that is both brotherly and sexual in this superb audio adaptation of Cunningham's vivid coming-of-age tale.
I'm looking forward to watching the movie version of "A Home at the End of the World," especially since Michael Cunningham (the author) wrote the screenplay.
The Hours moved me deeply, A Home at the End of the World left me cold and wanting to just get the the end of the book.
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 A Home at the End of the World
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• A Home at the End of the World at IGN
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 Powell's Books - A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.
A Home at the End of the World is a remarkable accomplishment."
An excerpt from A Home at the End of the World was published in The New Yorker, chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and featured on NPR's Selected Shorts.
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 A Home at the End of the World -- book review
But Alice’s voice is an important addition to the text; she is a complicated parent searching for meaning in her adult life at the same time the boys are growing up and becoming adults who continue their search for self.
One characterization does not come fully alive until the end of the story: Erich, who is Jonathan’s lover in New York City.
He remains an enigma until nearly the end of the story, when he retreats with Jonathan, Clare and Bobby to upstate New York when he is dying of AIDS.
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 Amazon.com: A Home at the End of the World: DVD: Harris Allan,Jeff J.J. Authors,Andrew Chalmers,Joshua Close,Wendy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
"A Home at the end of the World" is one of the most frustrating, yet also one of the most rewarding, films I've seen in a while.
When I saw the movie, at the end the entire audience was completely silent and did not move for most of the credits, a sure sign that this film was a success.
By using home as a metaphor and a terminal disease to create sympathy for itself, what this film really does is lead us down the road with good intentions to a home decorated in bad taste.
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 A Home at the End of the World Listing at Box Office Prophets
Based on a novel by Michael Cunningham, who also wrote The Hours, the novel that spawned the Academy Award-nominated film starring Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, A Home at the End of the World is a story about an odd love triangle starring the ubiquitous Colin Farrell.
Eventually, they move upstate to the home of Jonathan's mother (Sissy Spacek), who has been experiencing her own difficulties with her husband and Jonathan's father, Ned (Matt Frewer).
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 Warner Independent Pictures - The Official Site
Warner Independent Pictures aims to be a home to films that are adventurous, intimate, personal, taboo-breaking, and experimental, and to artists who explore the unexamined with courage and insight, and in ways that shed new light on the human condition.
It tells the story of four generations of men who are suddenly brought together by the chance to uncover the truth about their family's past.
As World War I draws to an end, a young French woman's greatest fight is about to begin.
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 A Home At The End Of The World (2004) - Sissy Spacek , Robin Wright Penn , Colin Farrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A Home At The End Of The World (2004) - Sissy Spacek, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Farrell
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in the lives of two best friends who couldn't be more different.
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