Time Indefinite

– After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies,..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.70 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 54 Minutes
Release Year:
1993
Time Indefinite (1993)

After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the sudden string of deaths, McElwee becomes depressed. After spending time with his friend and former high school poetry teacher, Charlene, he goes to meet his brother, a doctor. In a series of interviews, McElwee contemplates his morbid preoccupation with death and tries to figure out how to shake it off.

Producing Country:
USA
Filming Locations:
Genre:
Release Date:

12 May 1993

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Ross McElwee

Writer:

Ross McElwee

Main Actors:

Steve Ascher, Michael Blumenthal, Robert Gardner, Dee Dee Geraty

Plot:

Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn Levine - marriage something that he and his family never thought would happen for him - McElwee turns on the camera to film life as it happens in respect to this new phase in his life. Both in real terms (as it applies to himself and those around him) and philosophical terms, McElwee discusses, through self-narration, life, death, love, family and babies.

Production:

First Run Features

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%