Downloading Nancy
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Director Johan Renck Duration Language English | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Thriller Running time 1h 42m Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 21, 2008 (2008-01-21) (Sundance Film Festival) Writer Pamela Cuming, Lee Ross Initial DVD release December 16, 2009 (Germany) Cast (Nancy Stockwell), (Albert Stockwell), (Louis Farley), (Carol), (Stan) Similar movies Jupiter Ascending , Fish Tank , Factory Girl , The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things , At the Edge of the Abyss , Pitch Perfect 2 |
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Downloading Nancy is a 2008 drama film directed by Johan Renck, starring Maria Bello and Jason Patric. It is loosely based on the death of Sharon Lopatka who sought out someone who would torture her to death. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize.
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Plot

From the press release:

Dead to everything except painful pleasure, an unhappily married woman, Nancy, leaves her silent husband behind to meet a fellow broken soul in search of a final release. Louis is a quiet dispenser of pleasure, Nancy is the mechanism set to self-destruct. Beyond therapy, beyond medication, beyond feeling, Nancy is left with the only coping mechanism she ever knew, violence. Together, they journey through the darkest recesses of the human mind before finding solace in each other's arms. For Nancy, solace can only come from death, for Louis, it can only come from Nancy.
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Reception

The film received mostly negative reviews, garnering a score of 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, which summarized it as "slickly made but mostly unpleasant".

Variety called the film a "forbidding and morbid piece of psycho-sadomasochism" with a "swimming-in-the-deep-end performance by Maria Bello that is the definition of fearless". It also notes:

Performances are cranked up to red-line neurotic levels, while production values intently contribute to creating an artificially bleak world where it's understandable scarcely anyone would want to spend time, even for the duration of this movie.

Salon.com, in a report about the films at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, wrote:

One film that will not be acquired by anybody at Sundance – I'll just crawl out on a limb with this one – is Downloading Nancy ... Bello's skin-peeling, ultra-depresso performance is wrenching and brave, calling for both emotional and physical nakedness. Can a film with those attributes also be insulting garbage? It's a difficult aesthetic-philosophical conundrum, but having sat through this damn thing I now have an answer.
"I just had the experience of being there at the screening at Sundance and watching the door flap open and closed," says Rufus Sewell, who plays Nancy's husband Albert in the film. "I didn't expect so many people to walk out at Sundance." Despite the controversy, Sewell continues to staunchly support the film. "I was delighted. ...[I]t's a film I'm very proud of, whether you consider that it fails or succeeds, whether you like it or don't like it. I'm proud to be in it."
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