Third Person
Three love stories in three cities Paris, New York and Rome interwine in this compelling drama. Michael - a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction author - recently left his wife, Elaine, he is enjoying a week in Paris with his lover, Anna. At the same time, dodgy businessman Scott becomes entangled with Roma woman Monika, who is desperate to be reunited with her kidnapped daughter. And in New York, former soap star Julia is engaged in a bitter child custody battle with her artist ex-husband, Rick. Her lawyer Theresa has just one last chance to win the case. These three affecting love stories interlock in often unexpected ways in this latest engrossing.
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10 March 1984, New York City, New York, USA
15 January 1974, Rome, Lazio, Italy
18 April 1967, Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
14 April 1973, Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
7 April 1923, Naples, Italy
21 July 1984, London, England, UK
9 April 1981, Haifa, Israel
27 June 1974, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
1946, Pearl River, New York, USA
10 August 1975, Rome, Lazio, Italy
8 December 1965, Birmingham, England, UK
7 June 1952, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
14 August 1983, Chernovtsy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
7 July 1991, Ancona, Marche, Italy
18 February 1977, Bra, Piedmont, Italy
17 October 1964, Milan, Italy
April 09, 2015
Third Person has a number of distinct themes at work, manifested through characters and plots that are a mixed bag of believable and baffling.
July 10, 2014
Even if the story begins to melt into itself, at the end it's still fascinating to watch Haggis move his players.
July 07, 2014
Plumbing emotional depths, Haggis turns the characters' tribulations onto the viewer: If white is the color of trust -- as Neeson's author writes -- aren't we all a little gray?
November 19, 2014
When we reach our finale you can't help but feel somewhat detached and uninvolved in this title.
October 08, 2015
The question is if he realizes he more or less admitted to being a sociopath who remorselessly exploits the pain of those around him for the sake of drama.
July 11, 2014
"Third Person" is such a solipsistic, navel-gazing creation that it seems to have barely made it out of Haggis' mind and onto the screen.
July 10, 2014
It's all, I'm sorry to say, a melodramatic slog.
August 26, 2015
A pretentious wreck of a movie that severely tests the patience.
July 07, 2014
Trust is essential to any love relationship, writer-director Paul Haggis wants us to know, though he trusts us so little to grasp this theme ourselves that he makes his alter ego here, a world-weary novelist played by Liam Neeson, spell it out.
November 16, 2014
Third Person suffers from a script that fails to hook you in during its opening section and drags on without sufficient emotional connection for 137 minutes.
July 10, 2014
"Third Person" doesn't lack for ambition, and it's nice to see Neeson in the kind of role that he excelled at before he morphed into an action star. But the film may have some folks wishing they'd bought a ticket to "Transformers 4" instead.
