Synopsis
A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.
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Cast
- Ashley JuddLucy Fowler
- Laura PreponKim
- Jeffrey DonovanCal Percell
- Stacy KeachOwen Allen
- Scott WilsonLowell Fowler
- Tim Blake NelsonUncle Tim
- Christine Renee WardSue
- Candyce HinkleDoll
- Pat CorleyPapa
- Diane LaddNana
Recommendations
- 75
Christian Science Monitor
Adams has a good camera eye and a fine feeling for the regional mores of the South, where she's from. Judd, who for a change isn't being terrorized in a thriller, is more nuanced and intense than she's ever been. - 75
The A.V. Club
"Chasing Amy" star Joey Lauren Adams makes a competent, tender writing and directing debut with Come Early Morning, but the film is still entirely in Judd's hands. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A simple story yet told with such conviction, delicacy and instinct for truth that it carries keen emotional power. This is the first film from actress Joey Lauren Adams, so one can only hope she has more stories inside her for she has genuine storytelling talent. - 70
L.A. Weekly
No new narrative ground is broken, but there's a lived-in, musical feel to this tale of a fiercely independent, thoroughly screwed-up building contractor (Ashley Judd, in a pleasing return to the directness of her first significant role, in Victor Nunez's "Ruby in Paradise"). - 63
Chicago Tribune
Artfully shot and excruciatingly honest, the movie has great intentions but can't quite overcome its outsized sense of self-importance. - 60
The New York Times
An incisive but static and occasionally confusing character study of Lucy Fowler, a disheveled, hard-drinking single woman who has a day job as a contractor and a dissolute night life. - 60
Wall Street Journal
The script is somewhat predictable and the pace is leisurely, but Ms. Judd makes Lucy's choices seem momentous, and Ms. Adams gives us several beautiful scenes. - 50
Variety
Despite her (Judd's) efforts and those of a generally talented cast, picture just pokes along and offers nothing out of the ordinary in terms of drama, characterization or insight. Judd's presence notwithstanding, this one would be more at home on small than on big screens.
