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Howard Wakefield, a successful attorney in New York City, is unhappy in his marriage of fifteen years to Diana, a beautiful art curator and former dancer. They used flirtation with other people to add excitement to their sex life, but Diana soon begins to resent it.
May 19, 2017 · The screenwriter and director Robin Swicord, sticking pretty closely to the specifics of the story’s events, has made a smart, intriguing, sometimes provocative and often oddly moving picture of “Wakefield.” (The movie is dedicated to Doctorow, who died in 2015.)
May 19, 2017 · Wakefield: Directed by Robin Swicord. With Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner, Victoria Bruno, Ellery Sprayberry. A lawyer on the edge of madness decides to disassociate himself from his own life.
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- Drama
- Robin Swicord
- 2017-05-19
Aug 2, 2022 · The ambiguous ending of the movie is just a glimpse of how much Wakefield has changed and how much he hasn’t. His family’s reaction doesn’t matter anymore. The ending simply shows that, in retrospect, for Howard, all these years barely seemed a little more than a week.
Dec 28, 2015 · Pictures of dead celebrities can be hard to look at, but remember the good reasons behind open caskets. Many of these celebrities probably wanted the many fans who loved them to be able to say farewell.
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May 19, 2017 · The midlife crisis film, based on a short story by E.L. Doctorow, is a strange, muted drama. By David Sims. IFC Films. May 19, 2017. Wakefield begins with the vibe of a typical “middle-aged man...
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In Robin Swicord's adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's short story, successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace.
