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Disconnect

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Directed by Henry Alex Rubin
Produced by William Horberg, Mickey Liddell, and Jennifer Monroe
Written by Andrew Stern
With: Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Max Thieriot, Colin Ford, Jonah Bobo, Haley Ramm, Norbert Leo Butz, Kasi Lemmons, and John Sharian
Cinematography: Ken Seng
Editing: Lee Percy
Music: Max Richter
Runtime: 115 min
Release Date: 05 July 2013
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Director Henry Alex Rubin’s Disconnect could be called Internet Crash, for like Paul Haggis’ 2004 Best Picture Oscar winner, it is an overwrought ensemble film about everything terrible that can happen to people--in this case because of cyberspace rather than racism. Like Crash, this movie will probably divide audiences into two camps: those who find it an articulate, well-crafted meditation and those who find it an insipid, melodramatic mess. Myself, I’m in the middle--just as I was with Crash. While Disconnect features some fine performances and excellent individual scenes, it is relentlessly bleak and strains credibility as the intertwined stories build to their simultaneous climaxes.