Storyline
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
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Cast
Kathy Bates, Rachel Weisz, Chris Lowell, Kelly AuCoin, Michael Chernus, Danny Glover, Michael Shannon, Omar Metwally, Erin Darke, Tessa Albertson, Frank De Julio, Condola Rashad, Azita Ghanizada, Zach Appelman, Blake DeLong, Nancy Cejari, Chase Hemphill, Stan Vidal, Fukumi Kashiwagi, Charlie Hudson III, FaTye, Holly Jian, Christian Paul Sherwood, Cameron Sun, Tami Swartz
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Reviews
70
Refreshingly, there is no clichéd love story or illicit thriller that emerges; Marston is pursuing ideas that are far more personal and philosophical, about the masquerade of identity and what it means to that identity when you make a significant change in your life.
70
Luxuriously conversational in structure, it would make an outstanding stage play, and the two stars play it with chamber-piece rigor.
67
Something’s missing in Complete Unknown, and it’s a spiritual issue. The problem is that for this situation, the unlikely reunion, a natural approach restricts any and all sensationalism, which is why the ending neither bruises nor squeezes — it just lingers.
67
Marston and Sheppard have come up with a terrific premise, and have worked it into an often highly entertaining movie. But after a while, all the narrative ellipses and question marks start to feel like an affectation — beguiling on the surface, but un-genuine.
67
It’s as if a first-rate Roman Polanski movie suddenly metamorphosed (ohhh, frogs, duh) into a third-rate Michael Crichton adaptation.
