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Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.
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- 1 win & 3 nominations
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- TriviaEach of the long takes was shot on an entire 1000-foot reel of 35mm film.
- Crazy creditsNo hidden cuts were used in the making of this motion picture.
- ConnectionsFeatures Carnival of Souls (1962)
- SoundtracksI'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Written by Hank Williams
Performed by Del Shannon
Published by Acuff Rose Music (BMI)
Administered by Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI)
Courtesy of Mole Hole Records
By arrangement with the Estate of Del Shannon
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Too Late gets swallowed by its impressive gimmick
Too Late is halfway decent noir story anchored by a more than decent lead, but it lets itself get swallowed by its gimmicks. The movie is presented as a series of five twenty-odd minute one-take shots, with mixed results. The opening segment has some neat tricks behind it, including getting star John Hawkes from one end of town to another while maintaining action at a fixed point, and the reveals in the last are effective. But not all of the actors are up to the task, and the reliance on the one-take structure don't do them any favours; many of the scenes in the second section, in particular, have a student-play vibe to them, despite the presence of known names like Robert Forster and Jeff Fahey (Dichen Lachman, however, acquits herself well as a twist on the no-nonsense stripper trope). The nonlinear structure also feels like an afterthought to add some unnecessary extra novelty. The sidebars the movie somehow finds time for don't always work, such as a pair of minor drug dealers with no real purpose other than to pad out the takes and the film's annoying insistence on using film itself as a source of dialogue far too often. If it lost its gimmicks and shed a bit of fat, Too Late has the bones of a good gumshoe flick, albeit one a bit too reliant on stuffing women in refrigerators.
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- JimD73
- Dec 11, 2016
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $60,438
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,000
- Mar 20, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $60,438
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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