Rent In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008)
3.5 of 5 from 122 ratings
1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a rollicking comic ride and tender journey through love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Wilson (Scoot McNairy), a twenty-nine-year old guy who has just had the worst year of his life, is new to Los Angeles, has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. That is until his best friend, Jacob (Brian McGuire), browbeats him into posting a personal ad on the internet. When Vivian (Sara Simmonds), a strong-willed woman hell bent on being with the right guy at the stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching journey through the streets of L.A. begins. In the waning hours of the year, emotional vulnerability and bitterly honest humour seem to be waiting around every corner. - Actors:
- Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Brian McGuire, Kathleen Luong, Robert Murphy, Twink Caplan, Bret Roberts, Ann Chatterton, Cindy Drummond, Giorgio Pierangeli, Michael Pierangeli, Bruce Jay, Stephanie Feury, Julie Levin-Pierangeli, Kennedy Rich-Collins, Via Osgood, Justin Huen, Angel Diamond, Nic Harcourt, Billie Jo Bonner
- Directors:
- Alex Holdridge
- Voiced By:
- Tony Morgan, Sandra Lindquist, Regina Crosby
- Writers:
- Alex Holdridge
- Studio:
- Contender
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- All the Best: A Celebration of New Year Movies, The Ultimate Christmas Films Collection
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Reviews (2) of In Search of a Midnight Kiss
A good new year watch - In Search of a Midnight Kiss review by CP Customer
What a thought provoking, inspiring film! Maybe it was all about timing for me as I am very single and watched it on New years Eve! Sad you may think? But it did appeal to my better nature.
Shot in Black and white and using a very conversational, Woody Allen- like dialogue, I found myself getting sucked into this strangley bitter sweet tale of two people who meet over the internet on news years eve.
It is gritty, yet stylish. Tragic yet hopeful. Modern yet classic. All the things I love about a good modern romance.
4 out of 5 members found this review helpful.
Talking Blues. - In Search of a Midnight Kiss review by Steve
Among the best of a small wave of films influenced by Richard Linklater's Before trilogy- he gets a 'thank you' in the credits. So there's a walking conversation set in a touristic location, in this case Los Angeles, artfully photographed in b&w.
It's an odd couple/will they-won't they encounter between 20-something slackers. Scoot McNairy plays a jilted wannabe writer and Sara Simmonds is a spiky actor for whom the call never came, and so considering a return to Austin, Texas.
They are brought together by a dating site, to walk/talk in the streets of LA so they are not alone at midnight on New Year. First impressions are unfavourable, but we slowly begin to care, and the unstarry actors have some scruffy charisma.
There's more plot than the 'Before' films, and it's less philosophical. This couple is a little sleazy. It's a funny, sweet and sour indie date picture, with poetic observations on urban loneliness, the fear of missing out, and the LA dream going cold.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.