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Five Nights in Maine
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his cancer-stricken, estranged mother-in-law (Dianne Wiest).
28 March 1948, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
14 September 1979, Israel
6 September 1964, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
9 September 1938, San Francisco, California, USA
1 April 1976, Oxford, England, UK
August 20, 2016
Ultimately, Five Nights in Maine is a film that's centered on a heavy and sad subject matter that ends up feeling empty.August 11, 2016
Curran's deliberate pace captures the quietness of the setting of Five Nights in Maine, but the thinness of her script is what makes the film feel sluggish.August 04, 2016
Curran guides the cast to commendable performances across the board, with Oyelowo and Wiest delivering controlled, nuanced work to fill in the script's generous negative space.August 05, 2016
With its intimate setting and deliberate pace, the film feels like an acting workshop that might have worked better on stage.August 04, 2016
A believable character study that may not draw crowds but certainly challenges its two lead actors.August 05, 2016
Too much goes unsaid and too many issues are unresolved. The scenery is nice, but "Five Nights in Maine" just isn't worth the trip.August 04, 2016
We're left to guess how they feel at the beginning of the film and we don't learn much more by the end.August 04, 2016
The dreary postmortem drama "Five Nights in Maine" is barely kept afloat by the gravitas of dueling leads David Oyelowo and Dianne Wiest.August 15, 2016
While inherently fascinating in its analysis of grief ... it has difficulty finding its hook.August 05, 2016
Quiet drama has strong acting but needs more story.August 05, 2016
The dialogue is minimalistic, and most of it courtesy of Lucinda's cruel taunts that cut like a knife. But even those moments are never fully explored.August 10, 2016
Maris Curran's Five Nights in Maine has very little new to offer.