Starting Out in the Evening

Name: Starting Out in the Evening
Director: Andrew Wagner
Released: 2007
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Patti Perkins, Lili Taylor, Adrian Lester

2007 · 111 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 3,376 VOTES · DIR. Andrew Wagner

Overview

Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,219 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:14 Heather Wolfe, I presume.

00:06:31 ...for some unknown reason, about me.

00:10:00 "Now he understood that our birth into the world of the body...

00:13:05 And I'm sure you don't feel any differently.

00:17:30 ...because following one's characters around takes stamina.

00:20:44 Right, but you'd agree that knowing what we do about Hemingway's life...

00:24:51 ...he really started coming apart.

00:28:39 You're a graduate student somewhere, aren't you?

00:32:01 But that advertising revenue...

00:42:42 I thought you were in California.

00:46:40 I want him to be happy.

00:49:40 To go to bed with someone...

00:54:02 Can't it wait ‘til Monday? I really must get back to work.

00:58:07 ...or a literary journal, or a family.

01:01:19 And when it comes around in another 45 years...

01:04:22 Oh, but you had no problem feeding me a myth...

01:09:52 This is the key to my apartment.

01:14:24 What? Expressive...

01:17:55 Oh, well, what's that supposed to mean, huh?

01:21:31 Yeah, he's had a hard time finishing his book.

01:26:04 That's exactly why you have to leave.

01:35:48 See, I got to do something about this big old caboose of mine.

01:39:00 I'm sorry to have to put you through this.

01:47:28 STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING

Cast & Characters

Frank Langella Leonard Schiller Lauren Ambrose Heather Wolfe Patti Perkins Dolores Lili Taylor Ariel Schiller Adrian Lester Casey Davis Dennis Parlato Author Jeff McCarthy Charles Michael Cumpsty Victor Jessica Hecht Sandra Bennett Karl Bury Frederick

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,219

Dialogue density11.0 lines / min

First line00:02:14

Final line01:47:28

Production Record

DirectorAndrew Wagner

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes3,376