Hateship Loveship
A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.
8 February 1941, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
27 September 1976, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
11 December 1996, Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 January 1996, Weston, Florida, USA
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
4 April 1950, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
24 April 1976, Rochester, New York, USA
June 16, 2016
It's a film about healing; about burnt-out yang being weeded, fertilized, and watered by yin, to grow a relationship tree. But, like, a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
August 15, 2014
Hateship Loveship is by no means a bad film, but it's an unfortunately easy one.
April 25, 2014
Liza Johnson's nicely tuned, and turned, adaptation of the Alice Munro short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage."
May 26, 2014
...a remarkably delicate portrait of a shy, recessive but ultimately unsinkable woman entirely free of self-pity that confirms the remarkable watchability of Kristen Wiig.
April 24, 2014
Short fiction can be a marvelous blueprint for film and revisiting Nobel Prize-winner Munro's story in this era of "catfishing" makes a lot of sense: People are no less desperate for connection than they ever have been.
May 01, 2014
It doesn't take long for us to get lost in Wiig's thorough portrayal of a dowdy housekeeper who must soldier on in the face of a cruel prank to find some kind of love in her life.
April 18, 2014
The buttoned-up, buttoned-lipped Wiig seems to have landed in the Midwest from Mars, as though, like David Bowie before her, she's The Maid Who Fell to Earth
April 24, 2014
We've never seen a protagonist quite like Johanna, who on the one hand personifies female self-abnegation at its most domesticated, but on the other embodies the sheer will at its most stubborn.
June 06, 2016
Despite its seemingly canned plot, [it] commits to delivering a glimpse into that truth spiced with the joy of optimism rather than the easy placebo of certainty.
May 15, 2014
Punchless drama stars a serious Wiig
May 01, 2014
Wiig's underplaying, a repressed otherworldly Sissy Spacek sort of thing, has its moments of humor, but this proud, simple woman is never for an instant comic.
June 28, 2014
Director Liza Johnston elicits some very affecting performances from her talented actors but these are in service to [Wiig's] rather colorless character whose blossoming is a bit hard to fall for.
