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Honeyglue
After learning that she has three months to live, a young woman (Adriana Mather) flips her conservative protected life upside down. That is where she meets a rebellious gender-bending artist (Zach Villa), who takes her on adventure of a lifetime.
22 November 1965, Miami, Florida, USA
21 January 1994, Beverly Hills, California, USA
16 July 1988, Santa Monica, California, USA
16 February 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
March 15, 2017
You have to be willing to accept a lot of nonsense if you're going to make it through Honeyglue, beginning with the title.May 31, 2016
Worthy but more than a little sanctimonious.July 14, 2015
Has its bad and pompous moments, but it also feels lived-in and genuine.June 02, 2016
Honeyglue has a very good movie inside it, but decisions brought on by inexperience prevent it from sprouting its wings.June 09, 2016
Not every directorial choice lands, but the tearjerking Honeyglue's heart is in the right place.June 14, 2016
Mather gives an embodied performance as the dying young woman, but Villa is the true discovery, bringing soulful intelligence to the role of Jordan.May 31, 2016
It's more interested in borrowing terminal cancer as a narrative shorthand for intensity than investigating it as a lived experience.June 09, 2016
All in all, it's a mess, but in some weird way, it keeps you watching.May 31, 2016
So busy jerking tears and ladling on the whimsy that it can't even be bothered to make its leads halfway believable as people.June 16, 2016
Sticky with sentimentality.June 15, 2016
A twee romp through the familiar territory of indie faux-rebellion, James Bird's Honeyglue goes through all the regular motions.