Smashed
Los Angeles schoolteacher Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and her husband, Charlie (Aaron Paul), each have a drinking problem. But when Kate decides to get sober, their marriage is put to the test.
22 October 1986, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
10 March 1977, Palo Alto, California, USA
26 June 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
25 May 1970, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
27 August 1979, Emmett, Idaho, USA
23 September 1947, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
21 August 1963, New York City, New York, USA
June 10, 2014
Ponsoldt keeps up a good pace and refuses to let the material get too heavy. He focuses on the characters and their slip ups, jokes, frustrations, and all the imperfections that make up a person.
May 13, 2013
The only ingredient that renders it remotely unique is an Oscar-caliber performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the proverbial drunk with a heart - and liver - of Johnnie Walker Gold.
November 08, 2012
The camera work is handheld and jittery, reflecting Kate's often wobbly state of mind, and the character's decidedly nonglam wardrobe, minimal makeup and charm-free home feel honest and right.
February 03, 2013
In under eighty minutes, Smashed succeeds in so many ways.
October 26, 2012
It's an addiction-and-recovery movie without the usual side-effect of wallowing melodrama.
November 16, 2012
Winstead and Paul make their characters feel like flesh and blood, not stereotypical Lost Weekenders. Their love is as real as their future is shaky. And that's the film's great tragedy.
October 25, 2012
Winstead is an inarguably warm actor. She's just not doing the sort of work that transcends the movie's shortcomings.
November 01, 2012
Winstead, a relative newcomer, handily carries this slender film.
July 22, 2013
Winstead is immense in this picture, a true force of nature who embodies so many complexities and demons that make her this perpetually broken protagonist...
February 01, 2013
Mary Elizabeth Winstead comes into her own in this lightly directed and disarmingly enjoyable film, which delivers its message without the aid of a soapbox.
December 07, 2012
There will never be another Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor, but Hollywood may have found a new Lee Remick in Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
April 15, 2013
Smashed is a non-judgmental snapshot of the small world surrounding this couple, and is filled with insightful moments and really great low-key performances.
