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Ray Meets Helen is a 2017 romantic drama film directed by Alan Rudolph. It is notable as Sondra Locke's last acting appearance, age 74.

Ray Meets Helen
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alan Rudolph
Screenplay by	Alan Rudolph
Produced by	Keith Carradine Elaine Dysinger Michael Stewart Grant Chris Hazzard Sondra Locke Ernst Etchie Stroh Shahar Stroh Lesley Ann Warren Steven J. Wolfe
Starring	Keith Carradine Sondra Locke
Cinematography	Spencer Hutchins
Edited by	Jason Erickson
Music by	Shahar Stroh
Distributed by	Moonstone Entertainment
Release dates	October 9, 2017 (Haifa International Film Festival) May 4, 2018 (USA)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

Ray and Helen each happen upon large sums of money which enable them to reinvent themselves.

Cast

Production

The film originally was to star Lesley Ann Warren as Helen,[1] but she was replaced by the older Sondra Locke, who came out of retirement to do the role. It was Alan Rudolph's first feature film in 15 years.

Release

The film premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival on October 9, 2017. It was released in the U.S. on May 4, 2018.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 43% of 7 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10.[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]

In a mixed review, John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "the movie succumbs to one false note after the other — contrivances both fortunate and un- that increasingly test our willingness to accept what has come before as simply the strange vibes of a filmmaker accustomed to another age."[4]

Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote that the film "has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies. Filled with imaginative visuals populated by the ghosts of the gone and hopes for the future, the movie is wonderfully, magically humane."[5]

References

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived May 13, 2018)
• Ray Meets Helen at IMDb

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