Bodies, Rest & Motion

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Bodies, Rest & Motion

R,

1993,

1h 33m,

Drama

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61%

36 Reviews

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51%

1,000+ Ratings

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61%

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36 Reviews

51%

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1,000+ Ratings

In his sleepy Arizona town, Nick (Tim Roth) ekes out a living selling television sets. He decides, suddenly, that life has more to offer -- and that he might find it by moving to Montana with his reticent girlfriend, Beth (Bridget Fonda). But the day before their departure, Nick takes off without Beth, and she's crushed. Spurred on by her best friend and Nick's ex, Carol (Phoebe Cates), Beth takes up with a shiftless, pot-smoking housepainter (Eric Stoltz).

Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

Aug 6, 2026

3.5/5

Keenly performed, funny and poignant, and knows exactly where it's going.

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Harper Barnes

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Aug 6, 2026

Although the movie goes a little flabby in the middle, Bodies, Rest & Motion is generally both entertaining and insightful and superbly acted by all four main performers.

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Aug 6, 2026

The result is a unique film that both invites its audience to understand its characters intimately and yet to see them at a distance—as a phenomenon or as emblematic of a time of life.

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Stephen Hunter

Baltimore Sun

Aug 6, 2026

It is, far more passionately and more convincingly, a generational anthem, aimed with a bombardier’s strategic precision at those in their late 20s and early 30s, the baby boom stragglers who will bitterly have to do more with less.

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David Kronke

Los Angeles Daily News

Aug 6, 2026

3/4

With seamlessly blended whimsy and sensitivity, they create plausible, low-key characters aren't terribly equipped to cope.

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Poe P

Oct 15, 2018

It wasn't really bad, it just wasn't anything too exciting or gripping... & honestly, I really only watched this because this was one of Phoebe Cates' last performances on film.

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Michael Steinberg

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Phoebe Cates

Carol

Bridget Fonda

Beth

Tim Roth

Nick

Eric Stoltz

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Synopsis

In his sleepy Arizona town, Nick (Tim Roth) ekes out a living selling television sets. He decides, suddenly, that life has more to offer -- and that he might find it by moving to Montana with his reticent girlfriend, Beth (Bridget Fonda). But the day before their departure, Nick takes off without Beth, and she's crushed. Spurred on by her best friend and Nick's ex, Carol (Phoebe Cates), Beth takes up with a shiftless, pot-smoking housepainter (Eric Stoltz).

Director: Michael Steinberg
Producer: Roger Hedden, Allan Mindel, Denise Shaw, Eric Stoltz, Jeffrey Sudzin
Screenwriter: Roger Hedden
Production Co: August Entertainment, Mindel-Shaw Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 21, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $732.0K
Runtime: 1h 33m
Sound Mix: Surround

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