Slipstream
The film is about an aging screenwrite named Felix Bonhoeffer. His life is in two states of exsistance: in reality and in his own head. Hired to write a murder mystery set in a desert diner but he unawares that his brain is on the verge of implosion. As a redult, Felix is confused when his characters start to turn up in his life, and vice versa.
22 June 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA
29 March 1955, Santa Monica, California, USA
22 August 1973, Edison, New Jersey, USA
21 July 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 November 1952, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
20 July 1936, Pawnee, Oklahoma, USA
8 May 1972, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
28 February 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
8 July 1944, San Francisco, California, USA
10 December 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 March 1956, Popayán, Colombia
17 June 1941, Vicksburg, Michigan, USA
15 February 1914, Seattle, Washington, USA
November 09, 2007
A Hopkins personal vanity project
October 28, 2007
A miserable mess of a stream-of-consciousness movie.
October 28, 2007
What would have perhaps made an excellent short subject becomes a cumbersome, confusing and deeply unsatisfying mess of a vanity project.
February 29, 2008
Alternately interesting and unwatchable.
October 26, 2007
Slipstream is Anthony Hopkins's third film as a director and his first as a quasi-avant-garde filmmaker working well outside the mainstream.
April 12, 2016
Slipstream meanders into some lucidity by film's end, but it remains difficult to determine if it's a work born of genius or madness. The decision lies with the viewer.
October 26, 2007
Leave it to a 69-year-old actor to make the year's most experimental film.
October 26, 2007
At 96 minutes, this vanity/insanity project runs a bit long; five minutes would have been plenty.
February 28, 2008
Slipstream is utterly unwatchable. I hated every minute of it.
October 26, 2007
Slipstream is an experiment in visual stream-of-consciousness, but stream-of-consciousness fares better as a literary form than a cinematic one.
October 25, 2007
Either one of the most self-indulgent vanity projects in the history of the Hollywood star system, or a rare revealing look at a distinguished actor who usually keeps his real self out of the spotlight.
October 26, 2007
Slipstream ultimately winds up an avant-garde film that just ain't all that avant.
