This film is loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story titled White Nights. Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case as a person!! He is living with his immigrant parents after his fiancée left him. He is helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends and he is suicidal. In quick succession, he meets two women!!
Sandra is the daughter of his parents' business associates. She is frank, direct, sensual and Jewish like Leonard. He also connects with his neighbor Michelle. She is mercurial, rootless, fun, blond and unattainable. Michelle is in love with a married man and she cries on Leonard's shoulder. Sandra wants to save him. Is Leonard willing to risk losing Sandra's fidelity for the moments of Michelle's mood swings toward him? Can this end well?
Note: Imdb 7 out of 10 with 39K reviews, Roger Ebert 3 1/2*, Rotten Tomatoes 82% with 168 critic reviews 59% with 50,000+ audience scores, Metacritic 74 with 33 critic reviews 8.6 with 102 user ratings, RollingStone Magazine 3* out of 4* Peter Travers.
Mistake: After Leonard drops his suitcase out the window, it isn't there when he goes downstairs to meet up with Michelle.
Special Note: Featured in Maltin on Movies: Awards Special 2013.
110 min, Drama, directed and written by James Gray and also written by Ric Menelloo with Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce, Eliot Villar, Craig Walker, Carmen M. Herlihy, Donald John Hewitt, Christian Albrizo, Isabella Rosselini, Moni Moshnov, Julie Budd.
Note: Imdb 7 out of 10 with 39K reviews, Letterboxd 3.7 out of 5, Rotten Tomatoes 82%, Roger Ebert 3 1/2*, Wikipedia 82% based on 167 reviews, Metacritic 74% with 33 votes, Eye for Film 4* out of 5*, Amazon 2060 reviews.
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