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Virginia (2010)

dir: Dustin Lance Black

The movie takes place in a small town, where Virginia (Jennifer Connelly), a mentally unstable woman, has a two-decade affair with a local married sheriff, Dick Tipton (Ed Harris). Virginia's son Emmett (Harrison Gilbertson) acts as her protector.[1] During Emmet's quest for the truth of his father's identity, he begins a relationship with Jessie (Emma Roberts), Tipton's daughter.

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bill-goodykoontz bill-goodykoontz added a review of Virginia

A strong cast can't save Virginia. Read the review

bill-goodykoontz bill-goodykoontz rated Virginia

4 stars

sam-adams-the-av-club sam-adams-the-av-club added a review of Virginia

Black seems to be aiming for some sort of loopy fantasia, a tragic fable about struggling with difference in the small-town South, but he's got more half-finished ideas than he can handle. Read the review

sam-adams-the-av-club sam-adams-the-av-club rated Virginia

6 stars

scott-tobias-npr scott-tobias-npr added a review of Virginia

Connelly, Harris and Amy Madigan, as Tipton's devastated wife, all do their best to bring a measure of soul to Black's creations, but there's something fundamentally synthetic about Virgi... Read the review

scott-tobias-npr scott-tobias-npr rated Virginia

4 stars

lou-lumenick lou-lumenick added a review of Virginia

Black loses control of Virginia as it lurches from political satire to unintended black comedy to mom-and-son melodrama. But the performances and the movie's sheer crazy audacity make it ... Read the review

lou-lumenick lou-lumenick rated Virginia

5 stars

michael-rechtshaffen michael-rechtshaffen added a review of Virginia

Presumably a glib attack on sanctimonious small-town religious hypocrisy informed by Black's own strict Mormon upbringing, the film is tonally all over the place, eventually settling in a... Read the review

michael-rechtshaffen michael-rechtshaffen rated Virginia

3 stars

stephen-holden stephen-holden added a review of Virginia

Virginia is a wildly unpredictable piece of work. Playing the kind of role that is often associated with Laura Dern, Ms. Connelly gives a brave, full-tilt performance that is true to the ... Read the review

stephen-holden stephen-holden rated Virginia

3 stars

jesse-cataldo jesse-cataldo added a review of Virginia

Unfortunately, there's little sympathy granted to these people, and the revelation of their hidden vices comes across like an increasingly mean series of punchlines. Read the review

jesse-cataldo jesse-cataldo rated Virginia

4 stars

eric-hynes eric-hynes added a review of Virginia

It also serves to undercut fine performances by Connelly and Harris, whose choices are constantly destabilized by scripted swings between comedy and drama, realism and fantasy, genuine ca... Read the review

eric-hynes eric-hynes rated Virginia

4 stars

joe-neumaier joe-neumaier added a review of Virginia

The movie as a whole falls victim to a dewy kind of Tennessee Williams-itis, as Black plops too many wanna-be, colorful twists - imminent illness, botched robberies, fake pregnancies - in... Read the review

joe-neumaier joe-neumaier rated Virginia

4 stars

rick-groen rick-groen added a review of Virginia

It's all rather wacky and hard to follow or fathom, although maybe that's attributable to Virginia's schizophrenia veering off on its delusional phase. Read the review

rick-groen rick-groen rated Virginia

5 stars