Walking and Talking

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Walking and Talking

R,

1996,

1h 23m,

Comedy

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88%

24 Reviews

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70%

2,500+ Ratings

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88%

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70%

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2,500+ Ratings

Amelia (Catherine Keener) is jealous when her closest friend and roommate, Laura (Anne Heche), moves out to live with her fiancé. Suddenly alone, Amelia takes a pessimistic look at her own life. Her pet name for Bill (Kevin Corrigan), the last guy she dated, is the "Ugly Guy"; her conversations with her ex-boyfriend, Andrew (Liev Schreiber), usually devolve into name-calling; and her beloved cat has come down with cancer. She then tries to put aside her envy and rely on Laura for support.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

3/4

How did I feel at the end of Walking and Talking? The earth didn't shake, and I didn't feel in the presence of great cinema, but I felt cheerful, as if I had gone through some fraught times with good friends and we had emerged intact.

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Mike Clark

USA Today

Jan 1, 2000

2.5/4

Comes perilously close to becoming a gab-fest treadmill.

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Michael Atkinson

Spin

Dec 27, 2022

You can feel Walking and Taking's honesty in every frame.

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Ren Jender

Bitch Flicks

Mar 12, 2019

Laura and Amelia are allowed to behave imperfectly the way male characters are allowed to be in many films, but women hardly ever are.

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Michael Dwyer

Irish Times

Feb 19, 2019

Its slender narrative is economically unfolded in succinct scenes and features a good deal of acute observations, and it is attractively photographed by Michael Spiller, Hal Hartley's regular lighting cameraman.

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

Nov 8, 2017

3/4

...bears all the markings of the exquisitely observed relationship dramedies that Nicole Holofcener would go on to make.

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Catherine Keener

Amelia

Anne Heche

Laura

Todd Field

Frank

Liev Schreiber

Andrew

Kevin Corrigan

Bill

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Synopsis

Amelia (Catherine Keener) is jealous when her closest friend and roommate, Laura (Anne Heche), moves out to live with her fiancé. Suddenly alone, Amelia takes a pessimistic look at her own life. Her pet name for Bill (Kevin Corrigan), the last guy she dated, is the "Ugly Guy"; her conversations with her ex-boyfriend, Andrew (Liev Schreiber), usually devolve into name-calling; and her beloved cat has come down with cancer. She then tries to put aside her envy and rely on Laura for support.

Director: Nicole Holofcener
Producer: James Schamus, Ted Hope
Screenwriter: Nicole Holofcener
Distributor: Miramax Home Entertainment [us], Miramax Films
Production Co: Good Machine, Mikado Films
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 17, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 4, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.3M
Runtime: 1h 23m
Sound Mix: Surround

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