Flannel Pajamas

Rank

Bottom 40% of all time (see others with this rank)

Festival Year

2006 (click here to see all competition films from this year)

Category

Dramatic Competition

Cast

Julianne Nicholson, Justin Kirk, Rebecca Schull, Jamie Harrold, Michelle Federer, Chelsea Altman

Non-Cast Credits

Jeff Lipsky, Simon Channing-Williams, Jonathan Gray, Brian K. Devine, Jason Orans, Martina Radwan, Sara Corrigan, Patricia DiCerto

Description

Falling in and out of love with another human being can quite easily be considered one of the momentous events a person will experience in life. Indeed, it is the classic drama that so often fuels fantastic, larger-than-life tales. With his deeply affecting feature, Flannel Pajamas, director Jeff Lipsky reminds us that the enormous, and sometimes devastating, magic of loving someone can be found in the subtle, everyday, real-life moments of a relationship. Stuart and Nicole meet through mutual friends and experience a magical evening in a local diner one rainy spring night; it may never get better than this. But it does, and a stunning courtship ensues, drenching the lovers in radiance. Inside the cauldron of their romance, their enchantment mixes slowly with their own human shortcomings, and the relationship evolves in a way that is as delicate and effortless as it is dizzying and defying. Lipsky's marvelously observed characters and dialogue are brought to life by warm, natural, and genuinely inhabited performances from Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk. A unique accomplishment, Flannel Pajamas is the kind of honest and truthful romantic drama that can only come from American independent cinema.

Reviewer

Shari Frilot (see other films reviewed by the same reviewer)

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