Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Palaest recommended

Ploydsge just watch it!

NateWatchesCoolMovies Greg Harrison's November is one of those frustratingly opaque, reality bending sketchy thrillers where a metaphysical shudder is sent through someone's fabric of existence, in this case that of photography professor Courtney Cox. Driving home late one night, her husband (James LeGros) runs in to a Kwik-E-Mart to grab her a snack right at the same moment a burglar (Matthew Carey) brandishes a gun, and then open fires. After he's killed, you feel like the film is in for a run of the mill grieving process as she visits a therapist (Nora Dunn). Events take a detour down Twilight Zone alley though when a spooky photograph shows up amongst one of her student's portfolios, a snapshot of that very night at the store, apparently zoomed in on her husband. Who took it? Is the man actually dead? Will the film provide the concrete answers that some viewers so fervently salivate for in these types of films? Not really, as a heads up. As soon as things begin to get weird, they pretty much stay that way for the duration of the exceedingly short runtime (it clocks in under eighty minutes!). Cox's character revisits that fateful night from many different angles and impressions, either reliving it, recreating it or simply stuck in some sort of alternate time loop chain. There's a policeman played by Nick Offerman who offers little in the way of help, and she's left more or less on her own through this fractured looking glass of garbled mystic confusion. The tone and aesthetic of it are quite something though, a jerky, stark Polaroid style mood-board that evokes ones like The Jacket and Memento, with an art house industrial touch to the deliberately closeup, disoriented visuals. It's a bit maddening from the perspective of someone only looking for answers, and if that's why you came, you'll be left wringing your hands and losing sleep. If you enjoy the secrets left unravelled, and are a viewer who revels in unlocked mysteries left that way, recognizing the potent energies distilled from unexplained ambiguity, give it a go.

sol ***MAJOR SPOILER*** Going into a all night L.A convenient store to buy his girlfriend Sophie, Courteney Cox, a Hershey Bar Hugh, James LaGros together with the store owner and his son are cold-bloodily gunned down with their killer, Matthew Carey, taking off, dropping the cash as he flees, empty handed.It's now a few weeks later with Sophie teaching a course in photography at a local collage that she sees a slide-from one of her pupils-of the very same convenient store the very evening, almost to the moment, that Hugh was murdered in! Not only that she sees an obscure image of Hugh's, as well as the store owner and his son, killer! Going to the police to see what they can do in identifying, with state-of-the-art photo imaging, the killer Sophie is later shocked to find out that she was the person who took the picture! That when she at that very moment was sitting in her car at least 50 feet way from where the photo was taken!It's then that the movie "November" takes a sudden and paranormal turn in that we get to see the late Hugh and Sophie together with her feeling very guilty in cheating on him with her fellow photographer and good friend Jesse, Michael Ealy. We also get to see Sophie seeing a psychiatrist Dr. Fyan, Nora Dunn, about her guilt in Hugh's death! It's as if Sophie's cheating, not having him go into to store to buy her a chocolate bar, was the reason for his tragic death!The movie starts to get even weirder with Sophie not only having trouble with Hugh, in what is obviously a number of flash-backs, but her mother Carol, Anne Archer, as well. There's a number of scenes between Sophie and her mom that are repeated over and over mostly concentrating on her mom spilling a glass of wine on her dress as the two are dining in an L.A restaurant! The reason for that very bizarre scene becomes very evident in the last few minutes of the movie "November". ***SPOILER ALERT*** What also becomes crystal clear, to the audience as well as Sophie, as the movie grinds to an end is just where Sophie was at the time of Hugh's murder! And not only that but what Sophie's very guilt-ridden mind had been blocking out from her memory in what, if anything, she had to do with it!

chazz46-2 It is apparent that there is sufficient documentation that we humans "play the the tapes of our life" in very fast forward just prior to our death. This movie seems to allow for the ending of that comprehensive tape playing to resolve in final acceptance of the truth after what must be several permutations of fantasy and guilt-based wishful thinking. Rather than the long drawn-out subconscious (actually "final conscious")dreams as portrayed by the movie in the cadence of the living, this movie just accounts for a split second of "playing the tapes" before Sophie finally dies. I would have never guessed how those nanoseconds could have been captured by film art. In that sense, we the living, are given the opportunity to dissect out over an expanded time period that which actually occurs in an instant. We are thus given to appreciate how the senses of the living are tuned out of the dimension of time itself. Furthermore, this movie would suggest that how we handle truth is still wrapped in dream work even as we play our final tapes at our death.

coolpop54 I saw this film on a whim. I had not great expectations for either the film or Courtney Cox, who I remembered as an airhead on Friends. However, I was pleasantly surprised. I was taken in within the first few minutes and spent my time trying to figure out what actually happened. I had several theories, but it was not until the end that the secret is revealed. My jaw dropped to the floor and I knew that I had seen a beautiful work of art. I had to watch it again to see if I could pick out the clues. There were very few. But it made perfect sense. Cox was wonderful! Her performance in this movie made a fan out of me. I cannot wait for her next dramatic role. The story, the directing, the cinematography as well as the acting are superb. I cannot recommend this movie any more than 'see it' Make up your own mind, but give it a chance. You will be amazed.