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Canvas
2008 1h 41m PG-13
Drama
6.5
77%
62%
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A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
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Directed By
Joseph Greco
Written By
Joseph Greco
Studio
Canvas Pictures
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LMG Pictures
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Rebellion Pictures
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Cast of Canvas
Marcia Gay Harden
Mary Marino
Griffin Miner
Young Chris
Devon Gearhart
Chris Marino
Julie Upton
Aunt Joanne
Joe Pantoliano
John Marino
Harriet Oser
Mrs. Greer
Marcus Johns
Sam
Sophi Bairley
Dawn
Antony Del Rio
Gregg
Bill Erfurth
Officer Savage
Danny Kennedy
Tony
Nicholas Alexander
Student (uncredited)
Danny Rawley
Student (uncredited)
Canvas Reviews
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
Canvas is worth seeing for the acting, but the disease-of-the-week conventions and hackneyed visuals pretty well knock the wind out of its sails.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
First-time filmmaker Joseph Greco draws on personal experience for this devastating yet honest portrait of an ordinary Florida family.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Canvas is a serious film about mental illness and a sentimental heartwarmer, and succeeds in both ways.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Canvas is a movie that rings emotionally true, despite structural contrivances and dim, washed-out color.
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
Despite its admirable qualities, Canvas fizzles and falls into cliche.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Though Harden has the showier role, a subdued Pantoliano is the movie's real star. Sometimes, the quietest performances are the most powerful.
Metro
Chris Alexander
Movies don't come more personal than Canvas, writer/director/co-producer Joseph Greco's serious-minded exploration of the devastating effects unleashed by mental illness upon an otherwise tightly knit American family.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Writer-director Joseph Greco's refusal to explain the roots of Mary's madness gives John's desperate desire to summon happier days a bewitching poignancy.
Observer
Rex Reed
Writer-director Joseph Greco makes a nice feature-film debut telling a true, disturbing story about a 10-year-old boy struggling to cope with a schizophrenic mother.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
Greco's sincerity is so palpable that the frequent uplift feels deserved, but with just-passable filmmaking and the demeaning score, Canvas falls somewhere between powerful indie and made-for-TV diversion.
Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
An unusually sensitive take on schizophrenia.
Variety
John Anderson
Auds will experience the joy of discovery in Greco's fact-based drama -- not just in its perspective on schizophrenia and the effect of the disease on one Florida family, but in Joe Pantoliano's cliche-demolishing performance.
Boxoffice Magazine
Chad Greene
[A] strong first feature.
Reel.com
Pam Grady
Greco takes his biggest risk, perhaps, when he puts that boat in water with father and son manning the sails. It could be a mawkish scene that sinks everything that came before it, but like the watercraft that symbolizes so much, the movie remains afloat.
WBAI Web Radio
Prairie Miller
The director happens to know the often maligned subject of mental illness well from his own childhood as the son of a psychotic mother, and he embraces it with genuine feeling, emotional spontaneity and absence of consciously formulated dramatic pretense.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Greco succeeds where many others have failed in giving a real sense of what it is to grow up with a parent who's hobbled by mental illness.
Film Journal International
Frank Lovece
Small and slow-moving, and not in a way that means finely detailed and pensive.
Metromix.com
Matt Pais
An absence of detail means that Canvas teaches little about what it's like to be mentally ill or to know someone who is.
Los Angeles Times
Canvas just doesn't sketch a sufficiently vivid portrait.
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