Synopsis
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
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Cast
- Patricia ClarksonCelia Green
- Zachary BoothTheo Green
- Joseph CrossRoger Green
- Rutina WesleyNora Finley-Perkins
- Julio Oscar MechosoHector Castillo
- Fran KranzSean Oakes
- Devon GrayeLuke Caswell
- Alexia RasmussenVanessa Sanford
- Sheila KelleyVivian
- Mary Kay PlaceJeannie
Recommendations
- 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Aside from Patricia Clarkson, who is practically this movie's reason for being, the great virtue of Last Weekend is that it's exactly as it presents itself. - 60
Village Voice
Last Weekend is too enamored of this nouveau riche household to be satirical, instead offering unexpected moments of genuine warmth as a calling card for goodness. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Restrained and elegant to a fault, this first feature from co-directors Tom Dolby and Tom Williams is too muted in its catharsis and too overcrowded with superfluous characters to be fully satisfying, but the delicate central performance keeps it watchable. - 50
Variety
Its eventual reach for warm-and-fuzzy emotional catharsis rings hollow among characters that never become more than disagreeably shallow products of unexamined privilege. - 40
The Dissolve
Clarkson has great emotional authority onscreen, but even she can’t save Last Weekend. It’s beautifully filmed, with a great feel for location and atmosphere, but it feels petty. The vacation home is huge, but the emotions are exceedingly small. - 40
The New York Times
Mostly, Last Weekend is an elegiac ode to affluence. - 40
Los Angeles Times
All the possibilities of a richly drawn family squabble fade faster than the final days of summer. - 40
Arizona Republic
The characters flutter about, argue and flirt, but they are simply too bland and vacuous to make much of an impression. It doesn't help that half of them serve no purpose other than to fill the camera frame.
