Synopsis
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
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Cast
- Jon HammWill Beam
- Catherine KeenerDonna Beam
- John OrtizDaniel Kalman
- Nick OffermanHenry Greer
- James Le GrosPatrick Beam
- Bruce DernRonnie Ashemore
- Ellen BurstynHelen Greer
- Amber TamblynBethany Ashemore
- Annalise BassoTallie Beam
- Jennifer MudgeCaitlin
Recommendations
- 80
Village Voice
Keener, as always, is excellent, a shrewd actor adept at revealing what her characters might not realize they’re revealing. Eventually, she must plumb the depths of grief, and the effect is something like watching a member of your actual family collapse and then pull herself together and keep pressing on. - 75
The Associated Press
Nostalgia is not a perfect film but it is moving and sensitive. You leave with your head in the clouds and a new view of your precious stuff. - 58
The Film Stage
Ultimately, the whole is not as great as the sum of some very effective scenes. - 58
The A.V. Club
Hamm gets to dig deeper than he has before on the big screen, tweaking some Draperian notes of aloofness into a credible emotional dimension, even when Nostalgia abandons its unsensational, slice-of-life-in-boxes approach for something closer to traditional tragedy. - 50
Variety
Though lent a degree of executional grace by helmer Mark Pellington, Nostalgia nonetheless emerges an inorganic experiment that might’ve seemed more at home developed for the stage or as a novella. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
No doubt everyone can relate to the central idea of wondering about the purpose of the mementos we leave behind or those we discover after a death in the family. But a promising theme does not necessarily make for a satisfying movie. - 40
Los Angeles Times
The actors can't turn the strained stabs at poetry into the affecting meditation that was clearly intended. - 40
The New York Times
A soggy string of Hallmark moments designed to interrogate the value of the objects we cherish, the movie is front-loaded with major stars and squelching with sentiment.
