Come Early Morning - Quick Movie Review

Title: Come Early Morning

Release Date: 2006-11-10

Genres: Drama, Romance


High essence:

"Well, the early Ashley Judd is back with a vengeance, giving a scorching, heartfelt performance as a young woman looking for love and security in all the wrong places in writer-director Joey Lauren Adams' self-assured feature debut."

Medium essence:

Lewis Beale:
  • Coupled with Judd's ferociously sexy and anguished performance, this makes Come Early Morning one of those little films that deserves a big audience.
  • Well, the early Ashley Judd is back with a vengeance, giving a scorching, heartfelt performance as a young woman looking for love and security in all the wrong places in writer-director Joey Lauren Adams' self-assured feature debut.
  • One day Lucy meets Cal Percell (Jeffrey Donovan), a newcomer to town working in his uncle's roofing business.

Low essence:

Lewis Beale:
  • Remember the Ashley Judd of Ruby In Paradise ?
  • (Adams says her template for the picture was Tender Mercies .
  • (Previous to this, Cal had asked her if she'd ever kissed anyone when she wasn't drunk.
  • Coupled with Judd's ferociously sexy and anguished performance, this makes Come Early Morning one of those little films that deserves a big audience.
  • Well, the early Ashley Judd is back with a vengeance, giving a scorching, heartfelt performance as a young woman looking for love and security in all the wrong places in writer-director Joey Lauren Adams' self-assured feature debut.
  • Judd stars as Lucille Fowler, a ravaged-looking beauty in her 30s who's estranged from her taciturn father (Scott Wilson) and picks up men in bars for anonymous, drunken sex.
  • One day Lucy meets Cal Percell (Jeffrey Donovan), a newcomer to town working in his uncle's roofing business.

Source:
http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003380137