Ashby
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby - who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin - deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.
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15 February 1952, Conway, South Carolina, USA
17 December 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 October 1978, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
22 June 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 02, 2015
Complex, violent comedy explores friendship and mortality.
September 25, 2015
Folks buying a ticket to Ashby hoping to see a film about the late-great director of Being There and Harold and Maude are about to be sorely disappointed. So is everyone else.
September 22, 2015
It's Wolff and Rourke who have to carry the load, and for the most part they do.
September 27, 2015
A genre-blending adventure which somehow successfully combines elements of the coming-of-age and last hurrah formulas.
March 10, 2017
Despite the many winding roads it goes down, Ashby is funny throughout and easy to watch.
September 27, 2015
Mickey Rourke is a grizzled ex-CIA assassin improbably mentoring Nat Wolff's misfit teen in this lukewarm genre jumble.
September 25, 2015
It's a quirky life-lessons setup that, while occasionally earning deadpan laughs, tries for but never achieves Wes Anderson's patented mixture of the archly witty and the sneakily emotional.
June 09, 2016
Women can't teach boys to become men, so the reformed assassin has become the potential (movie) ticket to seeing a satisfactorily performed forging of a boy into a real man.
September 25, 2015
The ambition outpaces the execution of this coming-of-age drama.
September 22, 2015
A winning film about reconciling one's self-image with reality.
September 26, 2015
"Ashby" is engaging enough, and features strong performances by Rourke and Roberts, but it's not a film that will linger on the mind for very long.
September 25, 2015
It's a comedy afraid of being too funny lest its macho sentimentality seem even more ridiculous than it is, and a drama afraid of appearing too serious lest you dismiss it as hogwash.
