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Disconnect received a score of 71% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 79 reviews with an average rating of 6.7/10. The critical consensus states: "It's didactic in spots and melodramatic in others, but Disconnect 's strong cast helps make it a timely, effective exploration of modern society's technological overload". [3]
It's didactic in spots and melodramatic in others, but Disconnect's strong cast helps make it a timely, effective exploration of modern society's technological overload. Read Critics Reviews
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- Henry Alex Rubin
- R
- Jason Bateman
Apr 18, 2013 · Some viewers and critics have labeled “Disconnect” an overwrought melodrama whose messages aren’t especially original. However, I would contend that heartfelt emotion – the kind often on display in this film – is not the same as melodrama, and it’s refreshing to see a movie that reflects this quality as well as this one does.
An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site.
- Alexander Skarsgård
- Henry Alex Rubin
An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world. — LD Entertainment.
Disconnect is a 2012 American psychological thriller film directed by Henry Alex Rubin and written by Andrew Stern. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Max Thieriot, Colin Ford and Jonah Bobo. [2]
May 11, 2013 · While the plot sometimes becomes melodramatic and even delves into soap opera territory, with the parents of a dead baby having marital problems storyline the most guilty, it is saved by the well done acting of its cast.
