Diminished Capacity

Diminished Capacity
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Terry Kinney
Produced by	Galt Niederhoffer; Celine Rattray; Tim Evans; Daniela Tapling Lundberg
Written by	Sherwood Kiraly
Starring	Matthew Broderick; Virginia Madsen; Alan Alda
Cinematography	Vanja Cernjul
Edited by	Tim Streeto
Release date	January 21, 2008 (Sundance Film Festival); July 4, 2008 (United States);
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$23,719

Diminished Capacity is a 2008 comedy film directed by Terry Kinney and written by Sherwood Kiraly, based on his novel of the same name. It stars Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, and Alan Alda. It was released at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and opened in theaters in July 2008. It was produced by Plum Pictures.

Plot

A newspaper editor suffering from memory loss after an accident takes a trip to a memorabilia expo with his Alzheimer's-impaired relative, Rollie, and his high school flame, Charlotte. The plan is for Rollie to sell a rare baseball card, but a few people want the card.[1]

Cast

Matthew Broderick as Cooper Zerbs[2]
Virginia Madsen as Charlotte[2]
Alan Alda as Rollie Zerbs, Cooper's Uncle[2]
Louis CK as Big Stan[3]
Jim True-Frost as Donny Prine
Dylan Baker as Mad Dog McClure [2]
Bobby Cannavale as Lee Vivyan
Jeff Perry as Casey Dean, Cooper's boss
Lois Smith as Belle Zerbs, Cooper's mother
Chris Bauer as Lloyd, Charlotte's ex
Tom Aldredge as Wendell Kendall

Critical reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 35% based on 31 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "This low-key comedy about memory loss offers mild pleasures but is too bland to fully resonate."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[5] USA Today said that it "has moments of sweetness, but not enough poignancy or wit to turn it into the endearing art-house comedy that it aspires to be." Time Out New York said, "Great, just what we needed: another rote exercise in indie-feely humanism."[6]

gollark: But making them longer requires throwing computing power at it.

gollark: Yep.

gollark: He just manually burns each bit of his program into ROM with an EUV laser, obviously.

gollark: The `/abcd` on the end of the addresses is a random ID so you can have multiple people on one computer use it.

gollark: Technically, this allows longer messages than IRC.

References

Diminished Capacity (2008)
Film & Events Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine, Sundance Film Festival
Sweeney, Eamon (18 July 2008). "Stand-Up King". The Independent. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
"Diminished Capacity (2008)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
"Diminished Capacity Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
Diminished Capacity Movie Reviews, Pictures, Rotten Tomatoes

External links

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[1] Diminished Capacity (2008)

[sundance-2] Film & Events Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine, Sundance Film Festival

[3] Sweeney, Eamon (18 July 2008). "Stand-Up King". The Independent. Retrieved 9 January 2015.

[4] "Diminished Capacity (2008)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 10, 2020.

[5] "Diminished Capacity Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved May 10, 2020.

[6] Diminished Capacity Movie Reviews, Pictures, Rotten Tomatoes