Wendy and Lucy
Wendy Carroll decides to move to Ketchikan, Alaska where she spends summer time earning money with her beloved dog. She must struggle with the ups and downs to deal with financial problems to settle down.
23 March 1963, New York City, New York, USA
14 June 1954, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
1991, Portland, Oregon, USA
16 July 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 September 1980, Kalispell, Montana, USA
24 December 1970, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
25 October 1985, Portland, Oregon, USA
March 27, 2015
Wendy and Lucy is a little masterpiece about the painful realities of life among the have-nots during tough economic times.
March 27, 2015
The climax is a heartbreaker, and in its haunting finale the movie recalls no less than Mervyn LeRoy's Depression-era classic I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang.
March 12, 2009
Within the confines of this minimalist (with a microscopic m) picture, there are sequences so vital, timely and of-the-moment, so powerful and well-observed and precise, the effect can be emotionally overwhelming.
March 27, 2015
Wendy and Lucy refines Reichardt as a poet of the overlooked American working class.
October 07, 2015
It's a really simple story, but humanity, companionship and will power aren't that complicated either.
March 27, 2015
In happy sum, Reichardt is one more of the current American directors, most of them still young, who are endowing our film world with pleasure and hope.
July 07, 2010
Evanescent and intangible, it dissolves into the air, leaving something tragic and mysterious behind.
March 27, 2015
Wendy and Lucy -- with its simple shots and edits and an elegantly musicless soundtrack -- proves you don't have to be flashy to be compelling.
March 27, 2015
I expect there will be more stories like Wendy and Lucy's in the coming months and years. The wonder will be if they articulate their compassion and distress with such unforced eloquence.
March 18, 2009
Williams and Patton and the folks of this corner of Oregon serve up a slice of "indie" that, if it doesn't reach the level of "inspires," at least feels timely and true.
March 27, 2015
Wendy and Lucy's minimalist aesthetic relaxes rather than taxes our awareness, allowing it to linger over minute details, which, in turn, become monumental developments.
July 07, 2010
Wendy and Lucy is too laconic to be mistaken for a social drama, but it's set in a land whose harshness seems to a require a stronger critique than Reichardt's vignettes.
