Write When You Get Work
It is the story of love that changed Ruth Duffy's life. Ruth worked in an expensive school for girls in Manhattan and was well paid through that profession. Things change when Jonny Collins, who works in a local job, appears somewhere. It may seem that Johnny needs to sneak into Ruth Duffy's heart in order to gain love and profit after years of separation as they cross different paths.
18 February 1987, New York City, New York, USA
1 December 1971, London, England, UK
28 June 1965, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
16 August 1978, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
23 July 1992, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30 May 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 October 1984, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
25 February 1988, Kabul, Afghanistan
25 December 1992, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
15 August 1970, New York City, New York, USA
2 June 1979, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
19 December 1961, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
November 28, 2018
The beginning of Write When You Get Work, while inviting, levies the movie with a novel approach, but doesn't keep it together.
November 23, 2018
With zero romance and nonsensical thrills, the only legitimate theft here is of the viewer's time.
March 18, 2018
It should be a scathing study of class and privilege, but it's not sharp enough for that to work.
November 26, 2018
Be prepared for some loco twists and turns and to admit you were too quick to judge. It's a hard edged story that has us on our toes till the end.
December 06, 2018
Its resolution may have been playful and funny when used 40 years ago in a certain Jackie Chan film, but here it's just twee.
December 04, 2018
"Write When You Get Work" doesn't work. Not as a romance, not as a Robin Hood-tinged caper flick, not as a social commentary on racial inequity or classism, and not as a male-buddy picture.
November 23, 2018
There are some interesting things going on, and some insight into New York's economic hierarchy, but the film veers off into a hard-to-believe crime heist, and, ultimately, none of it really hangs together.
November 30, 2018
Wittrock, Keller and Mortimer make this quirky film interesting. They bring a freshness to their roles and the screenplay isn't half bad either.
November 22, 2018
Just clever enough and characters just winning enough to hold our interest long enough to be surprised at the end
November 19, 2018
The core of the film is Ruth and Jonny's backstory, which is dosed out in frustrating droplets but is nonetheless affecting.
November 23, 2018
It's a hodgepodge; a love story, a heist movie, social satire. Yet none of them work. The love story is creepy at times. The heist isn't that exciting and has very low stakes. And the social satire has no bite.
November 22, 2018
Neither remotely credible nor more than minimally entertaining, Stacy Cochran's New York City romance, "Write When You Get Work," presents rich folk as gullible idiots and blue-collar crooks as heroes.
