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Starting Out in the Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Andrew Wagner. The screenplay by Wagner and Fred Parnes is based on the novel of the same name by Brian Morton.
Starting Out in the Evening: Directed by Andrew Wagner. With Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Patti Perkins, Lili Taylor. An ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career.
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- Drama, Romance
- Andrew Wagner
- 2007-01
Dec 13, 2007 · "Starting Out in the Evening" is a film about people who think literature is worth devoting a lifetime to. People who think great novelists are a species of saint. It honors values that seem obsolete in our trashy popular culture, obsessed with the sex lives of vacuumheads.
A complex relationship develops between Leonard (Frank Langella), an academic novelist of advancing years, and Heather (Lauren Ambrose), a determined, fresh-faced graduate student doing...
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- Andrew Wagner
- PG-13
- Frank Langella
Nov 23, 2007 · Directed by Andrew Wagner. Drama, Romance. PG-13. 1h 51m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 23, 2007. A crepuscular glow suffuses “Starting Out in the Evening,” Andrew Wagner’s intelligent, careful...
- Andrew Wagner
Nov 23, 2007 · Overview. Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity.
Nov 23, 2007 · A rapturous, ruefully funny flight of sympathetic imagination. Featuring the first movie role for Frank Langella that ranks with his best stage parts, it's a rare kind of American movie.
