Downloading Nancy

Get Showtimes + Tickets

  • Opened June 5, 2009 
  • NR
  • When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in her life. While she pursues the freedom that she feels will only come with ultimate liberation, Albert is left to put the pieces together and try to salvage what is left. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman, Michael Nyqvist
  • Director: Johan Renck
  • Genres: Drama

What's the Buzz?

Oh No!
Critics say Oh No!
19 out of 100
Read critic reviews

Critic Reviews

42
Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

There are brutal scenes with razor blades and other impromptu devices of erotic torment, but what makes the movie a trial to sit through isn't just the heroine's pain-freak tastes. Read full review

30
Variety
| Todd McCarthy

On a moment to moment basis, however, picture continuously skirts very close to the ludicrous in its advanced-stage grimness and outre forms of torture foreplay. Read full review

30
Chicago Reader
| J.R. Jones

To her credit, Bello makes a real commitment to this spiteful, self-absorbed character, though the credibility she generates through sheer force of will is no match for the gimmicky plot twist that arrives at the story’s midpoint and sends the movie spinning off into stupid-land. Read full review

Read more critic reviews

Offers

Photos

Jason Patric as Louis and Maria Bello as Nancy in "Downloading Nancy."