Synopsis
'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that her husband has a new lover and begins to re-think her life choices and her open marriage. Diana and Isabel's paths cross with Alec, a young actor, and with Peter, a journalist. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day.
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Cast
- Glenn CloseDiana
- Elizabeth BanksIsabel
- Eric BogosianHenry
- Jesse BradfordAlec
- Matthew DavisMark
- Andrew HowardIan
- Thomas LennonMarshall
- John LightPeter
- Susan MalickRachel
- James MarsdenJonathan
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
There's much subtle beauty in the last movie completed by Merchant Ivory Productions before Merchant's untimely death. - 80
L.A. Weekly
The acting is uniformly superb. - 70
Film Threat
Director Chris Terrio confidently delivers a solid first feature, but sometimes doesn’t always engage in the characters’ inner demons, which could have made an even better film given the cast and material. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Beautifully shot on location in New York and consistently well-acted, but it sticks a little too closely to the surface to be very compelling. - 60
Variety
An entertaining ensembler marbled with wit and heartache. - 60
Village Voice
In this study of keeping up appearances while everything falls apart, the stakes never seem as high as the title suggests. - 60
The A.V. Club
Director Chris Terrio adapts Amy Fox's play with flashes of wit, moments of insight, and some fine performances. But Heights' characters move along such preordained paths and perform such familiar movie actions that they might as well sport antennae. - 60
The New York Times
Like the film, the characters mean well and look good. But they're so deeply immersed in their own heads that they can't see the world for their needs.
