The Four Corners of Nowhere

1995
1 Std. 50 Min.

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Ingrid Eggertsen in The Four Corners of Nowhere (1995)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuDuncan, a philosophical nomad hitchhiking across America, grabs a ride to Ann Arbor, Michigan from Toad - a performance artist and purple leisure slacks enthusiast from the suburbs. Toad has... Alles lesenDuncan, a philosophical nomad hitchhiking across America, grabs a ride to Ann Arbor, Michigan from Toad - a performance artist and purple leisure slacks enthusiast from the suburbs. Toad has recently left his home town to begin a new life in Ann Arbor where his co-dependent, folk... Alles lesenDuncan, a philosophical nomad hitchhiking across America, grabs a ride to Ann Arbor, Michigan from Toad - a performance artist and purple leisure slacks enthusiast from the suburbs. Toad has recently left his home town to begin a new life in Ann Arbor where his co-dependent, folk-singing sister Jenny lives with her verbally abusive fiancé, a law student named Calvin. ... Alles lesen

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electrobaboon

Eric Vesbit once saved me from a flaming bus. I appreciate that.

At its core, Four Corners is a sweet story about artistic pretension, personal fulfillment, and love, in that order. The characters, all college-age and located in college-town Ann Arbor, Michigan, are, at first glance, stereotypes and exaggerations of the students and hangers-on typically found in such burgs. Uniformly white and well-heeled, they read too much Dostoyevsky, worry about the tribulations of the American Indian, and smoke a lot of weed. They cull angst where there need not be any and do a hell of a lot of kvetching.

In other words, they're all the worst sort of people alive. However, writer/director Steve Chbosky is aware of this, and he does a great job of finding the human beings buried beneath these stereotypes and, slowly but surely, bringing them to the surface as the story progresses, having fun with the stereotypes all the while. As the disparate stories of the principal characters arc and come together through the action or inaction of the secondary (read: functional) characters, the movie's tongue falls quickly out of its cheek and it finds a real voice and message in its conclusion.

Although I personally have little sympathy for the faux-problems of silver spoon rich kids like the ones in this movie, Chbosky and the excellent cast do a great job of raising them from the deadness of stereotypicality, and, when all was said & done, I walked away from the movie a little bit happier than when I'd started it.

brownsf

Four Corners of Nowhere-Where can I see it?

I've heard lots of great things about The Four Corners of Nowhere and am anxious to see it. Unfortunately, I missed it when it was in general distribution. I've searched online and various video rental sites and just can't find Four Corners of Nowhere on VHS or DVD. The Sundance Channel, which aired it several years ago, says that they no longer have movie rights. I even contacted the former distributor. He also didn't know where the movie is available now. It seems to have disappeared from view. For a movie of this quality, that is really a shame. Does anyone know here can I get a copy of The Four Corners of Nowhere--or at least find a place to see it?

cvalhouli

impressed by Boston screening

I had the pleasure of catching this film in its limited theatrical release in Boston some years ago, and I remember it as one of the more impressive independent films. Wry dialogue and beautiful pacing allow the film to follow several groups of characters whose stories resolve and combine beautifully by the end. Looking forward to seeing more work from this team.

10bodhidharma

Great Low Key Film

It's hard not to compare Four Corners to the Breakfast Club. The movie is driven by characters and dialogue. I first saw this on the Sundance Channel and I had to tape it the next time it was on. Since then I must have watched it 20 or 30 times. The movie seems alternately funny, weird, sad, happy, angry and puzzling. Some of the characters seem like stereotypes but they all change over the course of the film. This is definitely too good for Hollywood.

javaman-5

This is a blast, you gotta see it.

Although set in a "Gen-X" milieu, this is a smart, perceptive film that says a lot about young people in our time, and offers hope. While it is a little rough, the characters are great, and Chbosky's dialogue and situations are a scream. See it!

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Duncan: I think it all started with the Declaration of Independence; the idea that we had the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That pursuit is what took America from the revolution to the computer age in 200 years. But the progress has come at a price. The obvious being the people that were exploited to make it possible; the not so obvious being us, the first group of people that were given no obvious frontiers to conquer. We hear stories about the good old days that don't seem to apply anymore. It's a generation gap that leaves us without role models. But the bright side is that without role models, there are no roles. Thirty years ago that girl you talked to probably would have married her fiancé because it would have been expected, but she ended up leaving him. Maybe that's what the 60's were all about... getting rid of the roles. But what do we replace them with? Without any guidance, the choices become overwhelming. Sometimes it just makes everything feel hopeless. So we destroy our bodies in the search of an ideal. Try to salvage relationships that don't work. We feel we must do something, instead of doing something that we feel. It is the prison of self-imposed momentum, and the sad part is that we get used to it. It reminds me of a song I heard the other day. It's called "Nowhere Fast." But the people I have met here have shown me another side of Nowhere. They've pointed out the beautiful irony that stagnation makes it easy to stop and smell the roses, if we just let it. What would we be if we had nothing to rebel against? Well we could finally be ourselves, the first group of people who stopped looking for the answers long enough to appreciate the questions. And all we have to do is to make our own Declaration of Independence. We can embrace the right to life and liberty by simply realizing that happiness exists... not to pursue, but to accept. After that, the only challenge would be to make sure, with the rest of our lives, that we weren't just another fad.