Three Days of Rain
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Writer/director Michael Meredith's ambitious first feature, Three Days of Rain, weaves together a large number of tales, loosely based on short stories by Anton Chekhov, and set in present-day Cleveland. Thunder (Michael Santoro) is a struggling tile-maker, an artisan whose leaky roof threatens to destroy his business and his life. Denis (Joey Bilow) is a mentally impaired railroad worker who finds his job in jeopardy when a co-worker, Jim (Chuck Cooper), questions his competence. Tess (Merle Kennedy) is a drug-addled young woman who performs sexual favors for a sleazy judge in order to visit the young daughter of whom she's lost custody. Waldo (Peter Falk) is an old rummy who repeatedly manipulates his caring son, Michael (Bill Stockton, who also produced the film), and then apologizes for doing so. Alex (Erick Avari of The Mummy) begins to question everything about his life after an encounter with a homeless veteran. A cab driver, John (Don Meredith), tells everyone who will listen about the recent death of his son. Through it all runs the commentary of a disc jockey (Lyle Lovett), who plays the smooth jazz that comprises the film's soundtrack. Three Days of Rain came to the attention of Wim Wenders through an editor on the project, Peter Przygodda, and Wenders, impressed with Meredith's work, became involved with the film. Three Days of Rain was shown in competition at the 2002 Tribeca Film Festival. The film features cameos by Blythe Danner, Jason Patric, Max Perlich, Wayne Rogers (of M*A*S*H fame), and avant-garde filmmaker George Kuchar.
Art House & International, Drama
Michael Meredith
Sep 30, 2005 wide
Rogue Arts
Erick Avari
as Alex
as Disc Jockey
as Waldo
Michael Santoro
as Thunder
Joey Bilow
as Denis
Merle Kennedy
as Tess
Bill Stockton
as Michael
as Beverly
as John
Chuck Cooper
as Jim
George Kuchar
Penelope Allen
Maggie Walker
Heather Kafka
Critic Reviews for Three Days of Rain
All Critics (10) | Top Critics (7)
Rain strives for a Magnolia-type tapestry of quiet desperation. But after 90 unremitting minutes of badly acted, atrociously written histrionic misery, pic leaves one praying for frogs.
Jul 20, 2006 | Full Review…
Ronnie Scheib
A hypnotic mood piece -- where characters' blank existential stares are framed through rain-beaded car windows -- and a murky riff on urban Midwestern ennui (by way of the Russian steppes).
Matthew Duersten
In the genre of interlocking stories about lonely lives, Three Days of Rain is only a sketch compared to the power of Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives, which continues to grow in my memory.
Dec 8, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4
The ends of each story work beautifully, but getting there requires traveling some washed-out roads, despite the imprimatur of executive producer Wim Wenders.
Sep 30, 2005 | Rating: 2/4
Jami Bernard
A well-written and -acted drama that's also unrelentingly grim.
Sep 30, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4
V.A. Musetto
Inspired by Chekhov's short stories, Three Days of Rain belongs to the now-familiar genre of overlapping tales of urban desperation.
Jeannette Catsoulis
Meredith has created a mood piece that avoids self-indulgence as it explores the self-indulgent nature of a handful of diverse people, caught up in the major and minor miseries of life's foolish ironies and genuine woes.
Jul 21, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/5
Bridget Byrne
It's simply a pleasure watching these seasoned pros, a collection of recognizable faces, if not exactly household names, massage these characters and bring them and their stories to life.
Jun 24, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Merle Bertrand
As a filmmaker, Meredith has a strong, if derivative, visual sense, although his screenplay is packed with too many clichés and familiar riffs.
Mar 11, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
The real subversion is director Michael Meredith's insistence on not capturing interactions between human beings in a frame; with some forethought he could have filmed the actors individually and spliced.
Sep 27, 2005 | Full Review…
Darren Reidy
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