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Labor Day is a 2013 American drama film based on the novel Labor Day by Joyce Maynard. The film is scheduled for limited release on December 25, 2013 in the United States.It was announced in 2009 that the film would be directed by Jason Reitman.On June 16, 2011, it was announced that Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin committed to star as the film's leads Adele and Frank, respectively.Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush co-produced Labor Day (2013) HD Movie Full Download premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2013.
There's craft, care and sensitivity in every frame of Labor Day (2013) HD Movie Full Download, so why does the film feel so counterfeit? It's a puzzle. Writer-director Jason Reitman has form with a snarky teenage point of view in Juno, and a wearier adult one in Up in the Air – films whose common ground is perhaps their melting veneer of cynicism, with proudly exposed heart beneath. Here, adapting a 2009 novel by Joyce Maynard, he lapses instead into a sun-kissed emotional monotone, and more or less sets up camp. Dreamy sincerity is the effect he's going for, but there are only so many baseball games in magic-hour light, trailer-ready montages of cosy household ritual, and fragmentary flashbacks of one character's mysterious past a movie can peddle before you start to wonder if it's for real.
We could talk about Kate Winslet, whose role as Adele, a depressed, divorced single mom in mid-Eighties New Hampshire, is another finely played entry in her growing range of unhappy homemakers – the same catalogue with Little Children and Revolutionary Road on previous spreads. Josh Brolin's more than respectable as an escaped convict, Frank, who calmly but firmly demands Adele and her teenage son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) let him hide out in their delightfully appointed home, which does not look for one moment as though a depressed single mom has been keeping it in order.
Frank, in what's initially meant to be a one-night stay, still finds plenty of handyman duties to let him flex his sizeable biceps around the place – fixing a loose floorboard here, a squeaky door there, indulging in a bit of shirtless ironing. And wait till you get a load of his peach pie. In the movie's blissed-out, inescapably ridiculous centrepiece, he teaches Adele and Henry how to stew a heap of ripe fruit and roll out pastry, with just the right amount of seasoning (a "salty crust" is crucial). When he guides Adele's hands onto the rolling pin, you expect Unchained Melody to pipe up at any moment. "Help me put a lid on this house," he tells them pointedly when the top's going on.Griffith is also very impressive. But it's strange how little their combined efforts actually help.Labor Day (2013) HD Movie Full Download inches away from starring Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling: though pristinely faithful to Maynard's book, it blurs inexorably into Nicholas Sparks. Time for this trio is meant to stand still, and so it does – even Frank's first day establishing his perfect stepdad credentials is stretched out to feel like months. When the three decide to make a run for the Canadian border, they take half the movie to get their act together, and though the tension of their hoped-for escape briefly rouses us from a pudding-induced coma, it's too late.
A single mother (Kate Winslet) shelters an escaped convict (Josh Brolin) and slowly falls for him over the course of one very eventful Labor Day weekend in writer/director Jason Reitman's adaptation of the novel by author Joyce Maynard. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
I don't know where to begin with Jason Reitman's Labor Day. Adapted from the novel by Joyce Maynard, you could have told me it was a Nicholas Sparks adaptation and I wouldn't have second guessed the statement. I can't tell if Reitman is having fun with his audience and has actually made a parody of a Sparks adaptation or if he takes this schlock seriously. Either way, it doesn't work.
To begin, Labor Day (2013) HD Movie Full Download has something of an identity crisis as it's unsure which character it wants to focus on. The voice over that introduces the film is read by Tobey Maguire playing an older Henry Wheeler, the young 13-year-old (Gattlin Griffith) seen throughout the entirety of the film, and son to Adele (Kate Winslet), a woman that has retreated within herself forcing Henry to be the man of the house.
Adele was left by her husband (Clark Gregg) when he couldn't handle her depression and, though he was given the chance to leave, Henry stays by his mother's side, recognizing her pain and doing what he can to help, including homemade coupon books that read "Husband for a Day". But even he knows there are certain things a son can't provide. In short, Adele and Henry need a man in their lives, and their need is about to be fulfilled in the most unorthodox of ways.Shopping for school clothes just before Labor Day (2013) HD Movie Full Download weekend, Adele and Henry are confronted by escaped convict Frank Chambers (Josh Brolin) at the local Pricemart. Bleeding and limping, he convinces them to take him to their house where he can rest for a spell and then be on his way.I assume you can see where all this is heading.Once home it doesn't become the tense situation you'd imagine, even though the local news warns us Frank was in prison for murder and escaped by jumping out of a second story hospital window shortly after having his appendix removed. Everyone is a little on edge, but this isn't your standard convict.
Frank begins fixing a few things up around the house, changing the oil in Adele's car, cleaning the gutters, teaching Henry how to play baseball and, the real kicker, Frank is quite the chef. After treating Adele and Henry to homemade chili the first night and homemade biscuits the next morning, it isn't until he makes use of a ripe bucket of peaches that Labor Day finally became nearly intolerable. After describing the process as if he was Fabio with a cooking show, all three of them start digging their hands in a bowl of cut peaches, mixing the ingredients with cinematographer Eric Steelberg getting his camera all the way in there. It's a foodie ménage à trois and considering it involves a mother and son along with a convicted murderer, it's more than a little weird.
As Frank hides out, a series of misplaced flashbacks begin revealing back-story on Frank and Adele while Henry goes out and randomly strikes up a relationship with some weird girl (Brighid Fleming) whose hair seems to be perpetually dirty and seems to fancy herself as some sort of wise, all-knowing oracle when it comes to broken families.Labor Day (2013) HD Movie Full Download thrives on this kind of plot development and manipulation as the wrong thing continually happens or is said at just the "right" time. The third act is loaded with such contrivances to the point I could only sigh and shake my head.
Labor Day (2013) HD Movie Full Download film can't decide if it's about Adele, Frank or Henry and Reitman can't balance the wealth of emotions the three bring to the story. Obviously both Adele and Henry are longing for a male in their lives, but both for different reasons. Frank seems to qualify as savior for both, but at the same time the living situation is ridiculous. Then you add Frank's story into the mix and not only does it feel entirely disingenuous, but the way in which Reitman uses flashbacks to add additional layers to both his and Adele's characters you can't help but feel manipulated, not to mention confused as neither seem to really be fully fleshed out or complete.
All that said, I can't fault the performances or Reitman's crew. Even though I found close to zero enjoyment in the film, Winslet (channeling her "Mildred Peirce" performance, updated for the mid-'80s), Brolin and Griffith are great, the latter especially. Griffith was fantastic in Clint Eastwood's Changeling five years ago and here he proves he's growing into a fine young talent with plenty of power behind his eyes.
Success is also found behind the camera with some fantastic camerawork and lighting from Steelberg, fluidly negotiating scenes throughout Adele's house and delivering shots such as the one at the top of this review, almost appearing to be a still-life capture rather than a snippet of a moving image. In fact, the shot is better left to decipher without seeing the film, which is the movie's biggest issue.The problem isn't the pieces, it's the sum of its parts. The voice over by Maguire seems tacked on, used as a crutch for Labor Day (2013) HD Movie Full Download that didn't get all the footage it needed to tell its story properly. Add to that the "convict with a heart of gold and a cookbook" nonsense and the tacky third act and I just can't support or recommend this film.
Directed by Jason Reitman
Produced by Lianne Halfon
Russell Smith
Jason Reitman
Helen Estabrook
Written by Jason Reitman
Based on Labor Day
Maynard
Starring Kate Winslet
Josh Brolin
Gattlin Griffith
Tobey Maguire
Music by Rolfe Kent
Cinematography Eric Steelberg
Editing by Dana E. Glauberman
Studio Indian Paintbrush
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
August 29, 2013 (Telluride Film Festival)
December 25, 2013 (United States)
Running time 111 minutes
Country United States
Language English
| TITLE | Labor Day |
|---|---|
| ORIGINAL_TITLE | |
| YEAR | 2013 |
| RATING | 6.9 |
| GENRES | Drama |
| DIRECTORS | Jason Reitman |
| WRITERS | Jason Reitman Joyce Maynard |
| CAST | Kate Winslet Josh Brolin Clark Gregg James Van Der Beek Tobey Maguire Maika Monroe Dylan Minnette Gattlin Griffith Brooke Smith Sarah Fischer Brighid Fleming Alexie Gilmore Tom Lipinski Elena Kampouris Stephanie Atkinson Kallie Tabor Matthew Rauch Lucas Hedges Aingea Venuto Jeffrey Corazzini Casey McDougal James Chen Dakota Shepard Jessica Kent Suzanne Prunty George J. Vezina Grace Thorsen Alexandra East Barbara Guertin Donna Glee Reim |
| STARS | Kate Winslet Josh Brolin Clark Gregg James Van Der Beek Tobey Maguire |
| PRODUCERS | Michael Beugg Jason Blumenfeld Helen Estabrook Lianne Halfon Steven M. Rales Jason Reitman Mark Roybal Russell Smith |
| MUSICIANS | Rolfe Kent |
| CINEMATOGRAPHERS | Eric Steelberg |
| EDITORS | Dana E. Glauberman |
| MPAA_RATING | PG-13 |
| RELEASE_DATE | 31 January 2014 |
| TAGLINE | |
| PLOT | Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited. | |
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