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Love Comes Lately

Play trailer Poster for Love Comes Lately 2008,  1h 26m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Octogenarian writer Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is either wildly imaginative or sadly demented. His long-suffering lady friend Reisel (Rhea Perlman) has become used to his frequent absences -- both mental and physical. Max regularly embarks on book tours, but his flights and fantasies are of dubious authenticity. Is nubile Sylvia (Olivia Thirlby) really attracted to him? Has his student Rosalie (Barbara Hershey) actually come to terms with her feelings for him? How will Max finish his new story?
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Critics Consensus

Though it doesn't quite live up to the source material, this adaptation of three Isaac Bashevis Singer short stories is poignant and charming.

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Ruthe Stein San Francisco Chronicle Aug 22, 2008
3/4
One of the best compliments to be paid a movie based on fiction is that it compels you to read other things by the author. Love Comes Lately is likely to elicit such a response. Go to Full Review
John Anderson Washington Post Jul 31, 2008
A film that might be called stubbornly magical. Go to Full Review
Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Jul 25, 2008
4/5
Fear of intimacy trumps fear of death in Love Comes Lately, filmmaker Jan Schtte's plaintively effective merging of three Isaac Bashevis Singer short stories. Go to Full Review
Nora Lee Mandel Film-Forward.com Dec 3, 2008
8/10
A poignant valentine to the creativity of I.B. Singer's later years, with the pungent dialogue of the lively women coming directly from Singer's magic realism stories. Go to Full Review
Stephen Schaefer Boston Herald Oct 18, 2008
B-
Stan Hall Oregonian Aug 29, 2008
A unique, weird and mostly wonderful film. Go to Full Review
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Jan Schutte

Director

Otto Tausig

Max Kohn

Caroline Aaron

Rachel

Olivia Thirlby

Sylvia

Tovah Feldshuh

Ethel

Barbara Hershey

Rosalie

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Synopsis Octogenarian writer Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is either wildly imaginative or sadly demented. His long-suffering lady friend Reisel (Rhea Perlman) has become used to his frequent absences -- both mental and physical. Max regularly embarks on book tours, but his flights and fantasies are of dubious authenticity. Is nubile Sylvia (Olivia Thirlby) really attracted to him? Has his student Rosalie (Barbara Hershey) actually come to terms with her feelings for him? How will Max finish his new story?
Director
Jan Schutte
Producer
Martin Hagemann, Kai Kuennemann
Screenwriter
Jan Schutte
Distributor
Kino International
Production Co
Zero Fiction Film
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 25, 2008, Limited
Release Date (DVD)
Feb 3, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA)
$77.5K
Runtime
1h 26m
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