On_Line

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  • Opened May 22, 2003 
  • 1 hr 37 min
  • NR
  • Set in Manhattan's cybersex industry, "On Line" at first appears to be about people getting off without ever touching, but it's much more. Built around revealing and often funny streaming video sessions with 'net-izens' like "man-on-man" host AI Fleming (Fleck), Internet fantasy girl Jordan Nash (Ferlito), self-destructive artist Moira Ingalls (Gillies), and Ohio innocent Ed Simone (Millegan), "On Line" uses a mix of new technology and romantic narrative to tell a classic New York story. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Isabel Gillies, John Fleck, Vanessa Ferlito
  • Director: Jed Weintrob
  • Genres: Comedy, Drama

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70
Los Angeles Times
| Kevin Thomas

A fine example of digital filmmaking, and Weintrob and his co-writer, Andrew Osborne, manage to raise some serious issues regarding the Internet without taking themselves too seriously. Read full review

63
Premiere
| Laine Ewen

The movie falls flat at the end, unnecessarily linking all of the characters in what seems to be an attempt to show how it really is a small world after all. Read full review

60
Salon.com
| Andrew O'Hehir

There's nothing unconventional or daring about On_Line, but considering how cheap it undoubtedly was to make, the acting, writing and direction all stand up pretty well; this is more intelligent and better structured than at least half the Hollywood movies I see. Read full review

50
New York Daily News
| Elizabeth Weitzman

Weintrob's shallow analysis of virtual reality might have been more resonant in the mid-'90s, but he seems well aware that some things are timeless: By the end of his film, he has firmly shifted focus, concentrating far less on the cyber than on the sex. Read full review

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