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1. 13 conversations about one thing full movie driver#
2. 13 conversations about one thing full movie plus#

13 conversations about one thing full movie driver#

Troy (Matthew McConaughey) is a young, cocky, hotshot lawyer in the DA’s office who is on the rise because of his ability to get convictions, but things change rapidly when he’s overcome with guilt that he’s a hit-and-run driver who was driving while drunk.

13 conversations about one thing full movie plus#

Gene (Alan Arkin) is a disgruntled insurance man who clawed his way in a lifetime struggle to a mid-level management position but is now seeing his company being downsized and his job threatened, plus he has an ex-wife remarried to a successful businessman (Council) and a junkie thief for a son (Burns) and an insurance investigator under him, Smiley Bowman (Wise), who gets his goat because this average guy is always happy no matter what. It traces the stories of four or maybe even five diverse questioners of the true meaning of happiness and tries to connect this jigsaw puzzle dramatization into one telling tale by having the stories intermesh.

Writer-director Jill Sprecher (“Clockwatchers“ ) in collaboration with her screenwriter sister, Karen, creates an ambitious modern urban alienation film about mental pain, that tries to dig into mankind’s overall spiritual malaise due most likely to industrialization and societal breakdowns in civilization. “The ensemble cast runs with the material and elevates their routine downbeat conversations to perhaps resemble those of a Mozart work that can even shake the deaf from their doldrums.” (director/writer: Jill Sprecher screenwriter: Karen Sprecher cinematographer: Dick Pope editor: Stephen Mirrione music: Alex Wurman cast: Alan Arkin (Gene English), Matthew McConaughey (Troy), Amy Irving (Patricia), Clea DuVall (Beatrice), John Turturro (Walker), Barbara Sukowa (Helen), Frankie Faison (Dick Lacey), Tia Texada (Dorrie), William Wise (Wade Bowman), Shawn Elliott (Mickey Wheeler), Alex Burns (Ronnie), David Connelly (Owen), Rob McElhenney (Hammond), Richard Council (Del Strickland), Malcolm Gets (Architect) Runtime: 103 Sony Pictures Classics 2001)