Downloading Nancy

2008

Drama / Thriller

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44% · 33 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 3184 3.2K

depression infidelity suicide sexual abuse therapist housewife

Plot summary

When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters.

Director

Johan Renck Photo
Johan Renck

Top cast

Matthew Harrison Photo
Matthew Harrison as Golf Video Announcer
Amy Brenneman Photo
Amy Brenneman as Carol
Maria Bello Photo
Maria Bello as Nancy Stockwell
Rufus Sewell Photo
Rufus Sewell as Albert Stockwell
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890.38 MB
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English 2.0
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1 hr 37 min
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25 fps
1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by richard_sleboe 7 / 10

Who has friends in Baltimore?

Something dark looms over this movie: Nancy's plan. For a long time, we don't know what it is, but it can't be good. Nancy (Maria Bello) is a pain junkie, the self-destructive kind: no pain, no gain. Maria Bello, she's good. This is her movie. The way she carries herself, the way she walks and the way she talks all radiate defeat. Maria Bello has a nice, articulate voice. But when Nancy speaks in that same voice, it doesn't matter what she says. The way she says it says it all. Nancy rarely smiles, and it's a pretty desperate smile, mostly reserved for her luckless therapist. Against hope, I found myself hoping for better days, but they never break. Nancy takes off to Baltimore. "Who has friends in Baltimore?", her helpless husband finds himself wondering. He's right. Nobody does. Nancy doesn't. She doesn't have friends. Not in Baltimore, not anywhere. She's not the type. - The script jumps back and forth in time, to unsettling effect. If you liked "Chasing Sleep" or "Breaking the Waves", this might be for you, but I'm not sure it's for anyone. There's not a ray of light in it, but I guess that's what life is like for the likes of Nancy.
Reviewed by kosmasp 4 / 10

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Maria Bello doesn't seem to care what people think of her choices in movie roles. Again she chooses a very difficult and not popular movie to star in. Maybe she needs those movies, to get off the sugar coated (aka "Hollywood") ones she does here and then (Coyote Ugly and of course Mummy 3).While I think fails to achieve what it sets out to do (I won't spoil that), Maria Bello is as great as in her other independent/small movies she stars in. It's her performance that elevates this movie. This combined with the strange subject matter almost did the trick for me. But in the end (and even if I try to overlook some flaws, like bad pacing and dramaturgy), the movie is still too long
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