Parallel Lives (film)

Parallel Lives is a 1994 television film written, directed and produced by Linda Yellen. It returns some actors and similar patterns of Yellens previous work, Chantilly Lace. It is Dudley Moores last film role.

The movie was developed by Yellen with the assistance of the Sundance Institute. As with Chantilly Lace, it uses guided improvisations with the actors, after receiving some general character outlines, free to improvise.The movie received mixed reviews. The New York Times critic John Leonard argued Parallel Lives is injured in its lightness of being by Yellens added structure. But until it sinks in murky narrative waters, its a marvel of raw edges and wild wit and surprise cunning, of craft that goes up like a kite to catch some lightning. The Variety critic Ray Loynd wrote When the movie works best ..., this is a movie that tends to make The Big Chill look sodden. ........

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