Words and Pictures
A flamboyant English teacher and a new, stoic art instructor form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
14 April 1990, Canada
August 4, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
14 March 1955, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
28 June 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 December 1971, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
22 June 1964, New London, Connecticut, USA
9 March 1964, Paris, France
21 April 1989, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
June 06, 2016
If you're looking for a date night option, you might find that spending the time in company of Owen and Binoche is good value, but the pictures here tend to overshadow the quality of the words.
July 24, 2014
The opposites-attract business exchanged by Jack and Dina is so efficiently scheduled throughout the script, you could almost imagine these moments were timetabled by software.
June 06, 2014
The actors are decidedly mismatched -- not to each other, but to the material.
July 21, 2014
In the end none of its gels, leaving fragments of a good movie that with a little more focus, and a little more polish, could have reached its potential.
June 05, 2014
One of those films that you want to like rather more than you actually do.
July 03, 2014
A romantic comedy about a match neither written nor pictured in heaven.
June 05, 2014
No, it's not fair that "Words and Pictures" isn't the movie we'd like it to be. But if it were better at being the movie it wanted to be, that wouldn't be an issue.
June 06, 2014
Words and Pictures stars Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche - a matchup that makes you want to like Fred Schepisi's film, even when it becomes impossible to do so.
September 16, 2014
It is a joy to see a film that tackles the topic of art and its value in the world, and all the better that actors of Owen's and Binoche's caliber can lead it.
July 20, 2014
Crowd-pleasing middle-brow romantic comedy about life in an elite New England prep school
July 11, 2014
Barely qualifies as a motion picture.
July 23, 2014
The performances are first-rate.
