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Exuberant and bittersweet, Not Fade Away is a coming-of-age story set to a British Invasion beat that occasionally meanders but mostly charms. In 1960s New Jersey, Doug (John Magaro) drops out of ...
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Aug 27, 2019 · 30 Minutes on "Not Fade Away". The first theatrical feature film written and directed by David Chase, the creator of “The Sopranos,” is an autobiographical tale about the formation of an artistic sensibility. John Magaro plays Doug Damiano, a northern New Jersey teenager whose father Pat ( James Gandolfini) is a hot-tempered, Archie Bunker ...
Dec 21, 2012 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Directed by David Chase. Drama. R. 1h 52m. By Stephen Holden. Dec. 20, 2012. There is plenty of hope but little glory in “Not Fade Away,” David Chase’s sympathetic ...
Dec 20, 2012 · David Chase’s semi-autobiographical reminiscence of life in suburban New Jersey in the mid-sixties, Not Fade Away, is a glancing, disjointed little movie that captures as well as any film I’ve ...
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 68% of 92 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.50/10. The site's consensus reads, "Exuberant and bittersweet, Not Fade Away is a coming-of-age story set to a British Invasion beat that occasionally meanders but mostly charms."
Dec 21, 2012 · A post-modern film where there are no heroes. The thing that made the Sopranos work was even though Tony behaved like a monster, the charisma and kind-spirit of James Gandolfini shone through. It made the viewer care enough about the character to keep watching. Unfortunately, Gandolfini is a bit wasted in this.
Not Fade Away is rated 14A by the Ontario Film Review Board for coarse language, slurs, sexual references, partial or full nudity in a brief sexual situation, illustrated or verbal references to drugs, alcohol or tobacco, crude content, substance abuse, embracing and kissing, fondling, implied sexual activity, tobacco use, and restrained ...
