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Demolition

Name: Demolition
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2015
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Polly Draper, Judah Lewis

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Comedy
Drama

2015
Jean-Marc Vallée
96 mins
15

Summary

Romantic drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts. Following the death of his wife in a car accident, the life of successful executive Davis Mitchell starts to unravel. The only solace he finds is with a customer service agent at a vending-machine company, who finds herself moved by the widower's plight.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Stella Papamichael

Jake Gyllenhaal is brave or foolhardy to take on the role of Davis Mitchell, an investment banker who earns no sympathy because of an emotionally stunted reaction to the death of his wife. As the grieving father-in-law, Chris Cooper is rightly outraged by Davis's odd behaviour, which includes fixating on Naomi Watts as the customer-service agent he writes to with a complaint about a broken vending machine. The letters are intended to be an outlet for the feelings that David can't otherwise express, but they simply don't ring true and neither does his impulse to take things apart "to see how they work" (including a refrigerator and a toilet door). Director Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild) loses the character in a jumble of quirks and later, is thrown further off-track by the volatile friendship that evolves between Davis and Watts's rebellious son (Judah Lewis) whose issues warrant a separate film. Davis bangs on about honesty, but his words and unlikely actions just don't hang together.

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7.0/10