jleon25 Again, another movie from Hollywood reducing the American male figure into a pushover cuckold unable to stand up for his deserved respect as a man, father and husband. Is this how the entertainment media sees men in today? The Movie acting and setting are great, the writing is crap.Here is a hard-working man, laying down his potential loss of life everyday as a Law Enforcement Officer. He is a great dad, a great husband. He is not abusive to his wife, isn't cheating on her, well until she confesses to him for screwing his best friend. Once the cat is out of the bag, his response is like nothing could ever be so unbelievable. He just accepts, his best friend, in his household almost as a hero for exposing his wife's boring life. I guess that's how you spruce up a bored wife's life in the entertaining industry, by letting your best friend jump on her bones, while you are at work. Maybe that's what life is like in Hollywood Universe, but for the rest of us, in the real world, crap like this doesn't end up in fantasy land. How about adjusting your moral compass in a better and honest direction, instead of trying to brainwash our society right down the drain. How about showing what really happens when a wife is caught cheating on a husband and gets physically abused, if not outright murdered, after she is caught. How about showing the youth of today, there are consequences when you make bad choices? How about teaching us to communicate in better ways before one partner takes a bad turn and try to fix a relationship before is becomes haywire and somehow you get this unrealistic ending?

rsternesq Well, the actors did well. The men are all really easy on the eyes and the women look better than real people ought to. The camera work is pretty good and overall values (filmwise) are more than respectable. The message here is that male bonding trumps love. Well, here's a bit of a news flash. It doesn't work this way. Men can and do love each other in all kinds of ways and some men love women but not in this way. The end is more than an effort to tie up the loose ends. it tries to make a STATEMENT. The statement is wrong. Go watch Wuthering Heights, take two aspirin and watch Coastliners once more. Then it will seem pretty obvious that the old saying isn't "greater love hath no man than to lay down his wife for his friend." I for one understand the lag in releasing this. They should have redone the ending and maybe it wouldn't be so hard to remember the actual quote, "greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friend."

Nick Dets Victor Nunez is on par with a lot of directors who use their surroundings as their muse. Like Scorcese with New York, Mann with L.A., or Shamalyan with Pennsylvania, Nunez builds his stories around an area he knows well: east coast Florida. His masterpiece "Ulee's Gold" used the enchanting backdrop of Orlando's peaceful outskirts to build on the emotional aspects of its main character Ulee. The movie came alive from Nunez's subtle, but powerful focus on atmosphere, character nuance and rich symbolism.It's disappointing that his follow-up "Coastlines" (which completes his "Panhandle Trilogy") had some of those elements in tact, but failed to use them effectively. The story is about a young man named Sonny (played by a well-cast Timothy Olyphant) who gets released from prison to a home town that has grown up without him. He gets back in touch with his old friend Dave, who is now a police officer and married to Sonny's old crush Ann. Simultaneously, he deals with unsettled issues from his old mobbed-up employers.From that story come some potentially engaging themes like revenge, jealousy, nostalgia, disenchantment and betrayal. However, disappointment quickly sets in when the scenes become more and more dull. The screenplay was written before "Ulee's Gold," and is extremely similar, with many characters and back stories almost exactly mirroring those of the previous film. "Coastlines" brings nothing new to the table, and has no energy with the subject matter at hand. As the movie moves on, it becomes hard to shake the feeling that Nunez had run out of inspiration.What the movie lacks despite energy is originality. The movie contains plenty of drama, but there is nothing happening that hasn't been done better in other movies. What Nunez needed, in order to transcend the clichés, was the rich undertones and subtexts that made "Ulee" so engrossing. Nunez needed another layer of depth to give weight to all the things going on in his story.There is no doubt that Victor Nunez is an excellent independent director. However, that doesn't excuse the fact that "Coastlines" is a movie that simply didn't need to be made.

justnicestuff i drove josh for 5 days at this sundance film festival premier... he scored a nice seat for me to watch this film when i dropped him off at the theatre... i loved this movie too, hopefully it will be available soon... there were some slower parts, as there are with all movies, but it was paced very well overall and the anxiety intended was portrayed very nicely by the actors involved... i wouldn't say it was fantastic, but it was definitely a well written, well acted script with some crazy twists in plot that kept me wondering what the hell would happen next - those movies i like... and sarah wynter, come on already - what a sweet woman with a wonderful Aussie accent and personable spirit... josh is a great guy also, down to earth, funny, talented, and a wonderful person to work for...