thesar-2 Though this movie is now 12½ years old, it's nice to see Courteney Cox again. Haven't seen Friends in years, rarely watch the Scream movies and aside from a dream I had about her as Monica with Chandler in a bath tub a couple of nights ago (don't ask,) I don't get to see her in something new-to-me often.Additionally, it's nice to check out an indie thriller occasionally. It has to be well made, despite a low budget, unknown to me and recommended from a friend, which this was.There were many films I thought about when watching this. Probably just influences to the creators. And that's not a bad thing, except when all I'm trying to do is solve the movie with recalling how the other films played out.In November…boy, do I wish it were, this hot summer in Arizona has really overstayed its welcome…Cox's Sophie made her boyfriend get her a desert at a corner L.A. market when BAM! he's shot down by a coward robber. The remaining short runtime involves Sophie putting the pieces of her life back together. Of course, this is an indie film, as mentioned, so completing the jigsaw isn't going to be straight-forward.Unlike most of TV's Friends' cast, Cox is one of the few actors who can step out and play different characters than the ones they played for over a decade on T.V. Aside from her hair – which they will bring up, sadly, a few times, you may not even recognize her and that's a good thing. The remaining cast aren't unknowns, but they seem to be taking second fiddle to her performance. Don't get me wrong; it wasn't award-worthy, but it was 100% believable and you did get transported into her world.There's nothing truly wrong with this movie. It's a good suspense to try and solve with the story lines. You may see the ending coming, but it still works, nonetheless. See it.***Final thoughts: Another good, never-heard-of movie recommendation by author, Dustin Putman from his book: The Fright File: 150 Films to See Before Halloween. Totally recommend you purchasing a copy of this before October (or November? Sorry, movie tie-in there to make this relevant. Haha) at http://www.thefrightfile.com/book/

Rodrigo Amaro After the death of her husband (James Le Gros) during a robbery, a traumatized photographer (Courteney Cox) investigates what's behind mysterious clues and events that may help her to find the person who killer her partner and what happened on the day he was killed.The viewer's involvement with this story? It goes well for a while then it gets repetitive, doesn't move much, lacks in suspense and lacks in originality. Although the few characters aren't so interesting, the plot seemed to be, intriguing and complex until the script makes some wrong and strange turns, alternating facts and confusing the audience by playing and replaying scenes but changing some characteristics. Only when the ending comes you understand this on/off effect; but by that time it dragged a lot, presented many facts and couldn't keep up with any, most of the time thrown at us with no purpose. "November" uses of chapters related with death stages (anger, denial, acceptance, etc.) each time a change is introduced. I can't deny I saw it and it made me very angry when I realized the copy this movie was, borrowing elements from "Memento" and "The Sixth Sense". Painfully boring, and that's a fact you'll have to accept. 4/10

sol ***MAJOR SPOILER*** Going into a all night L.A convenient store to buy his girlfriend Sophie, Courteney Cox, a Hershey Bar Hugh, James LaGros together with the store owner and his son are cold-bloodily gunned down with their killer, Matthew Carey, taking off, dropping the cash as he flees, empty handed.It's now a few weeks later with Sophie teaching a course in photography at a local collage that she sees a slide-from one of her pupils-of the very same convenient store the very evening, almost to the moment, that Hugh was murdered in! Not only that she sees an obscure image of Hugh's, as well as the store owner and his son, killer! Going to the police to see what they can do in identifying, with state-of-the-art photo imaging, the killer Sophie is later shocked to find out that she was the person who took the picture! That when she at that very moment was sitting in her car at least 50 feet way from where the photo was taken!It's then that the movie "November" takes a sudden and paranormal turn in that we get to see the late Hugh and Sophie together with her feeling very guilty in cheating on him with her fellow photographer and good friend Jesse, Michael Ealy. We also get to see Sophie seeing a psychiatrist Dr. Fyan, Nora Dunn, about her guilt in Hugh's death! It's as if Sophie's cheating, not having him go into to store to buy her a chocolate bar, was the reason for his tragic death!The movie starts to get even weirder with Sophie not only having trouble with Hugh, in what is obviously a number of flash-backs, but her mother Carol, Anne Archer, as well. There's a number of scenes between Sophie and her mom that are repeated over and over mostly concentrating on her mom spilling a glass of wine on her dress as the two are dining in an L.A restaurant! The reason for that very bizarre scene becomes very evident in the last few minutes of the movie "November". ***SPOILER ALERT*** What also becomes crystal clear, to the audience as well as Sophie, as the movie grinds to an end is just where Sophie was at the time of Hugh's murder! And not only that but what Sophie's very guilt-ridden mind had been blocking out from her memory in what, if anything, she had to do with it!

dwpollar 1st watched 1/4/2009 –(Dir-Greg Harrison): Confusing but interesting drama about a woman who supposedly loses her boyfriend during a convenience store robbery. Courtney Cox is wonderful as the photography teacher who goes slightly insane following this incident. The movie starts with this scene and then Courtney's character starts seeing things that don't make sense like a photograph taken the night of the murder supposedly coming from her camera, and pictures of the stores cameras being shown thru her mirror. She sees a psychiatrist, as most people would at this point, and talks to her about the incident as well as her affair with another man. They conclude that she is possibly blaming herself for the murder and therefore seeing these strange things. The movie then starts showing us different versions of the incident and we're not sure what really happened after this. Was she the victim? Was her boyfriend really shot? Is she really having an affair? Is this all just a dream? These are some of the questions going thru the viewers mind after viewing these other versions of the original scene. Are all these questions answered by the end of the movie? I guess you'll just have to watch it and find out for yourself, cause I'm not telling!! If you're interested in thought-provoking movie-making then this one's definitely for you. If you don't like movies without answers then skip this one, it will just frustrate you.