Breathe In
Keith Reynolds is a high school music teacher married to Megan and living in a small town an hour and half from New York City. He has given up a career as a musician following the arrival of their daughter-Lauren. The family is to host a foreign exchange student, Sophie, for one semester. Sophie reveals to Keith that she is an accomplished musician and they bond over their mutual interest. Keith and Sophie embark on a love affair, spending time together talking about running away together. But the story will not follow their plan.
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31 July 1964, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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May 02, 2014
[Doremus] telegraphs the film's intentions early and builds at a ponderous, self-important pace toward a trite, unsatisfying finish.
April 04, 2014
Buoyed by some nicely nuanced performances (especially by Pearce and Amy Ryan as his dream-dashing wife), Breathe In never quite rises above its predictable potboiler premise.
April 03, 2014
The film needs more help than it gets from the script, which turns on facile coincidence and dwindles in originality as it moves toward its climax.
April 21, 2014
Jones, outstanding as the other woman in Fiennes's "The Invisible Woman," seems adrift here and Ryan's Megan projects no desires past maintaining the status quo.
December 09, 2014
Midlife crises, affairs, teen drinking, sex in indie drama.
April 18, 2014
There's something flimsy and unformed at these characters' cores, something that no amount of jumpy close-ups, skittering sideways glances, and rainy music can make up for.
April 03, 2014
Every moment between stars Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones feels so much like an explosion about to go off that viewers may hesitate to so much as take a breath at the wrong time for fear of disturbing the film's delicate equilibrium.
August 18, 2014
A soft, pretty score and noteworthy camera work -- often close on the actors' hands or faces -- help keep this low-key film engrossing.
April 18, 2014
A film about a May-December romance, it would be laborious to sit through at any time of year.
April 03, 2014
The superb acting can't turn narrative lead into gold with this story about the attraction of a foreign-exchange student pianist to her married host and teacher.
April 20, 2014
The screen sparkles with the sexual tension between Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones...
April 03, 2014
A breathy tale of a not-quite love affair, Drake Doremus' "Breathe In" is yet another skillfully acted indie drama that's never quite good enough to be memorable.
