Fresh
Paul Schrader directs The Walker, and the writer has a way with understatement. Like his 1992 gem Light Sleeper, this movie draws you in with its reserve.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
The Walker
Everyone loves a good scandal.
2007 · 1h 48m · R
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Paul Schrader
Overview
Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.
Director and cast
- Paul Schrader Director
- Woody Harrelson as Carter Page III
- Kristin Scott Thomas as Lynn Lockner
- Lauren Bacall as Natalie Van Miter
- Ned Beatty as Jack Delorean
- Moritz Bleibtreu as Emek Yoglu
- Lily Tomlin as Abigail Delorean
- Willem Dafoe as Larry Lockner
- Mary Beth Hurt as Chrissie Morgan
- William Hope as Mungo Tenant
- Steven Hartley Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Written and directed with elegant finesse by Paul Schrader, the film is a character study wrapped in a story of political and corporate misconduct.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
There is good writing here, and Thomas is very good as always, but the movie works because of Harrelson's performance.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
It's vaguely interesting, but vagueness isn't a big turn-on for most audiences. You keep wishing The Walker would break into an extended run in some direction. But instead it merely meanders.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
This is no masterpiece, but a fine-tuned little thriller packed with meticulously chosen details of character and place.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
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