Storyline
Returning home to working class Warwick, Rhode Island, Peter Latang encounters childhood friend Donald Treebeck for what starts as a simple favor and turns into a long van ride into two friends past.
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Cast
Ted Arcidi, Louisa Krause, Jeremy Furtado, Alexander Cook, Allie Marshall, Ariana DeFusco, Kate Fitzgerald, Shawn Contois, James L. Leite, Kris Avedisian, Patrick Languzzi, Peter Lewis Walsh, Jesse Wakeman, Kyle Espeleta, Tom Kilgallen, Robby Morse Levy, Tyrone Alcorn, Donny Fite, Matthew Barletta, Nick Riess
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Reviews
90
Donald Cried is an acutely insightful, exquisitely written and acted triumph for Mr. Avedisian, who understands how the past permanently clings to us.
83
While hardly reinventing the wheel, Donald Cried spins it faster than usual, taking cues from its memorably irritating protagonist. Beneath its entertainment value, the movie also hints at the tragedy of aimless adulthood.
80
In virtually every closeup, Donald Cried practically seethes with barely suppressed emotion, though Avedisian cannily couches his characters’ very real, raw feelings amid a ridiculousness born of Donald’s wholesale weirdness.
80
Village Voice
In a bitterly funny performance, Avedisian lets Donald's freak flag fly, a big-toothed grin lighting up his face, framed by a shaggy haircut not deliberate enough to be a mullet.
75
The Film Stage
Avedisian, as a director, certainly leaves the film to him and his fellow performers to dominate, but not so much in the sense of ostentatious close-ups of heartfelt monologues — rather by capturing the uncomfortable physical confrontations between everybody.
