13 Conversations About One Thing

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  • Opened May 24, 2002 
  • 1 hr 34 min
  • R | language and brief drug use
  • Karma is at work for several people who lead separate lives, but are subtly connected to each other. Five stories evolve in New York City. An attorney (Matthew McConaughey) becomes involved in a hit-and-run incident; a math professor's wife is mugged; an insurance company manager deals with his ex-wife and juvenile delinquent son; and a young woman recuperates after a car accident. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Alan Arkin, Clea Duvall, Amy Irving, Frankie R. Faison
  • Director: Jill Sprecher
  • Genres: Drama

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

The movie is brilliant, really. It is philosophy, illustrated through everyday events. Most movies operate as if their events are necessary--that B must follow A. "13 Conversations" betrays B, A and all the other letters as random possibilities. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Loren King

Resonates with intelligence and a poignancy made more sorrowful by what happened to all of us, but especially to New Yorkers, on that terrible day. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

It takes a while for this oddball film -- a mosaic of stories in the style of "Magnolia" -- to take hold, but when it does, it grabs you hard. Read full review

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Miami Herald
| Rene Rodriguez

Nothing fantastic or supernatural ever happens, but you can still feel cosmic forces at work behind the scenes, conspiring to repeatedly test the movie's characters, doling out reward and punishment in equal doses. Read full review

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