Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Storyline
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
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Cast
Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Stephen Henderson, Tom Kemp, Heather Burns, Josh Hamilton, Erica McDermott, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Williams, Gretchen Mol, Kenneth Lonergan, Brian A. White, Tate Donovan, William Bornkessel, Wendy Overly, Lucas Hedges, Missy Yager, Kara Hayward, Joe Stapleton, Jami Tennille, Shawn Fitzgibbon, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Lewis D. Wheeler, Danae Nason, Richard Donelly, Amanda Blattner, Kt Baldassaro, C.J. Wilson, Brian Chamberlain, Susan Pourfar, Anna Baryshnikov, Robert Sella, Liam McNeill, Ben O'Brien, Ruibo Qian, Virginia Loring Cooke, Mary Mallen, Chloe Dixon, Ellie Teeves, Christian J. Mallen, Oscar Wahlberg, Jackson Damon, Allyn Burrows, Anthony Estrella
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100
Lonergan is the master of taking a scene that starts off as something familiar, then sending it spinning off in another direction, and then pulling back at just the right moment, as the viewer’s imagination hurtles ahead to fill in the gaps.
100
Kenneth Lonergan’s deeply moving return after the travails of Margaret shows what a rare storyteller he is, measuring out his narrative beats in a world which crackles with life, guiding Casey Affleck’s magnificent performance, instantly recognisable as a career-be
100
The persistence of grief and the hope of redemption are themes as timeless as dramaturgy itself, but rarely do they summon forth the kind of extraordinary swirl of love, anger, tenderness and brittle humor that is Manchester by the Sea.
100
To say Lonergan has evolved further with his third feature would be an understatement: He toggles between his new plot’s years with the relaxed mastery of Boyhood’s Richard Linklater. Plus, he’s finally got a complex central performance that anchors his ambitions to cinema’s all-time great brooders.
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Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea is an extraordinarily wise and well-observed film about what can happen to someone when life gives them more than they can handle, and Casey Affleck's lead performance is, simply put, the model of what great film acting should look like.
