Margaret

This movie is missing many key story lines which was cut to 2.5 hours. Original is 3.6 hours.

if you just want to be more angry at everything in the real world and have a miserable time, do anything else but watch this movie, it is really awful.

Please bring us the director's cut version!

Horrendous American film with big names, famous film makers, astonishingly none showed up during the making of this junk. One reason American films are over, done, a waste of money. This is unbearable.

I wish you could buy the soundtrack!!!!! The selection of classical music is amazing!!!!!

Those who pan this film seem to want tidiness. The Middle East is all over New York restaurants. Lear grates at the edges of urban life. Young people survive by repression. Hoffmann unlocks hearts. Things don't make sense. Messiness works.

Great acting though...

I love this movie. What is it about a messy work of art that deems it to the margins? KING LEAR is a mess. Mahler's symphonies are a mess. Buster Keaton's masterpieces are filled with chaotic jumbles at every turn, yet we revere them? Bravo to Kenneth Lonergan and all the people who fought to restore this movie's integrity. Craig Lucas

The movie was one of the worst films that I have seen. The scene where the woman knocked over the picture frame while sitting at the lawyers desk and when the mother dropped all the mail should have been cut/edited. It makes it appear that the director, editing staff, and/or the producers didn't care or are incompetent. Scenes just jumped from one thing to another without making sense. I am going to recommend the movie to my friends just because I want to bust their balls and also to see if it was just me or will they also see all the defects and flaws that I saw. I need a second opinion to verify that I am not misunderstanding a work of art or as NPR says "critically acclaimed" film. This was the first time that I spent over two hours wanting to turn a move off but did not because I could not believe anyone could produce a major motion picture that had such bad acting from A list actors, poor dialogue, awkward videotography showing the sky with a lone jet off in the distance, or the scene at the opera where Anna looked like she did not have a top on her. I think college students in film studies 101 could have done a better job.

I loved the Margaret and her mother characters. Very good story as well.