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Don't listen to the negative reviews

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Okay, let's start with the good words about "Heights": it's slick, stylish, absorbing, observant, and well-acted. Now let's write one not-so-good word: it's also inconsequential. In the best movies of this type (multi-character dramas where the characters cross paths, knowingly or inadvertently), every character is equally important (see "Short Cuts"); in "Heights", it becomes clear after a while that the focus is really on Elizabeth Banks (very beautiful), James Mardsen, Glenn Close and Jesse Bradford, while some of the other big names in the cast have insignificant (Eric Bogosian, George Segal) or even practically cameo (Isabella Rossellini) parts. Once the story of the principal four players is concluded, the others are forgotten and the movie ends. But it does hold your interest all the way through. Not recommended for homophobic viewers. *** out of 4.

I enjoyed it at some level but will not be eager to watch it again.There is a homosexual photographer, whose associate is going around interviewing people who may have been clients of his.Glen Close is a famous Shakespearean actress who also teaches. Her daughter is a pretty blonde who works as a photographer and is about to be married to a Jewish man who isn't really "that religious".As the story unfolds we see that there are connections between the various characters, most that the audience are aware of before the characters are. So, in a sense it is one of those movies that explores the ways everyone seems to be connected.Overall it is well told and edited in an interesting manner. Some of the men display on screen affection for each other, but it is done in a meaningful manner.

Diana (Glenn Close) is a drama teacher who daughter Isabel (Elizabeth Banks is getting married. She's going to marry Jonathan (James Marsden) but she's not sure if it's what she should do. Her ex Mark (Matt Davis) offers her a job that might be a way out. Actor Alec (Jesse Bradford) auditions for Diana and she becomes attracted to him. And photographer Benjamin Moore is having a show...and all hell will break loose. Got all that? Multi-character drama seriously offers nothing new plot-wise but it's well-written and acted by a great cast. Close leads the way and is superb followed closely by Banks. Even Marsden, Bradford and Davis are good--and I've never really liked any of them. Well-directed with good use of Rufus Wainwright music. There's also a very passionate gay kiss. But seriously...I've seen this all before. These plots have been done in other movies. Still it's worth catching for the acting alone. Recommended.

I understand a lot of the criticisms I've read so far of this film. I can see how the characters might bug some people with their self-absorption. But for me, the movie had a central pillar of integrity because it was originally a play, and I thought the writing gave it intelligent coherence. For me, there always was a point.What most struck me about the film from the get-go with Diana Lee's scene (Glenn Close) teaching the master acting class was the notion that we've all become cel phone-talking, latte-drinking, status conscious zombies afraid to bust out and take a damn risk. I thought the director sort of layered this idea on top of the film in a way that I imagined Crash tried, unsuccessfully, to do. The result was, as some have noted, not a plot driven movie but a character-based one, one in which we are not surprised by much, but, again as someone else pointed out, the point is the characters' reactions to each other. I really gravitated to this idea that we have sold our souls to ambition, our future, and feeling secure in it. This idea has particular resonance for me. In their own ways, living like this dehumanized the characters. This was particularly obvious for the fiancé, Jonathan.Elizabeth Banks looks remarkably like another actress these days, not Parker Posey, but someone else -- Julia Stiles or Kirsten Dunst. I thought the entire cast was pretty decent and interesting. Isabella Rosellini's scene was excellent – she captured that subtly bullying personality perfectly.Unlike a lot of others, I actually thought Glenn Close was a little flat in her scenes away from the theater. Maybe she was supposed to be.Roger Ebert's review had some weird grammatical or spelling and sense mistakes.Rightly or wrongly the notion that corporations have won and have won us really grabbed me while watching Heights. This was one of those quiet movies. I don't mean quiet film as in understated, but literally a quiet movie/sound script. It's one of those dvds you can fall asleep to. It's so soothing, no loud noises, slow, nice, tinkling soundtrack, everyone's voices are soft. It wasn't boring. I watched it once, then started it over and fell asleep to it the second time.