Synopsis
A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
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Cast
- Stanley TucciTed Swenson
- Addison TimlinAngela Argo
- Kyra SedgwickSherrie Swenson
- Janeane GarofaloMagda Moynahan
- Ritchie CosterDean Bentham
- Colby MinifieRuby Swenson
- Alison BartlettAngela's Mother
- David PittuBernard Levy
- Henry StramDave Sterret
- Stephanie BerryArlene Shurley
Recommendations
- 63
Movie Nation
Levine writes and shoots enough scenes in inventive ways to make this mildly-frustrating melodrama work. - 63
RogerEbert.com
Tucci is wonderful, but Timlin comes close to eating him up almost as thoroughly as her character does his. - 63
San Francisco Chronicle
Submission is not a bad film — it just feels like an early draft. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite many script problems, Levine has kept the film tightly coiled and engrossing throughout. - 58
IndieWire
Like a time-traveler who sets into motion the same fate they’re trying to undo, Submission is so desperate not to become a cliché that it ultimately wastes a golden opportunity to become something more. - 50
Slant Magazine
This tentative questioning of the sometimes unscrupulous methods and deleterious consequences of political correctness is further undermined by Ted's insipid character and general indifference to his fate. - 50
The New York Times
The satire is cautious and the emotions restrained, so that what should be a swirl of lust, ambition, recrimination and bureaucratic absurdity rises only to genteel, nervous laughter and mild discomfort. - 50
Variety
Levine, who wrote the script, knows how to stage an energized intellectual battle, but adapting “The Blue Angel” to a 21st-century setting turns out to be a distinctly musty and unrewarding idea.
