Honeyglue

Name: Honeyglue
Director: James Bird
Released: 2016

James Bird

2016

Synopsis

After learning she only has three months to live, Morgan flips her conservative protected life upside down. That is where she meets Jordan, a purse snatching cross dresser artist, who takes her on adventure of a lifetime.

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50
The Film Stage
Honeyglue has a very good movie inside it, but decisions brought on by inexperience prevent it from sprouting its wings.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Jessica Tuck gives an emotionally raw performance as Morgan’s mother, and Amanda Plummer’s turn as a trailer park resident sheds more light on Jordan than all the other scenes combined.
50
Los Angeles Times
Writer-director James Bird took inspiration from real-life experiences, and the story is obviously heartfelt. But despite a stylized, edgy surface, Honeyglue doesn’t stray from the well-worn weepy narrative.
38
The Seattle Times
It’s Honeyglue, a romantic drama, which fittingly, given that title, is sticky with sentimentality.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Writer-director James Bird’s second feature tells an entirely familiar story with a dash of transvestism thrown in, but doesn’t do anything interesting with that twist – and the lumpen screenplay is drag enough.
12
Slant Magazine
It's more interested in borrowing terminal cancer as a narrative shorthand for intensity than investigating it as a lived experience.
10
Village Voice
[An] unintentionally hilarious tragic romance.
10
Variety
Throughout, Bird’s visuals are consistently flat, and his habit of cinematographically spinning around his characters (at a dinner table, on a dance floor, in a field) is dizzying in an unpleasant, nausea-inducing way — thus creating a fitting marriage of form and content.