Driving by her will of meeting her brother, who becomes old and ill, a famous actress, Irina Arkadina, accompanies her lover, Trigorin, a famous novelist, and her son, travel to the country, where they faces many challenges and obstacles of love, when her son falls in love with a country girl named Nina, but incidents come to climax, upon knowing that Nina is in love with Trigorin.
16 May 1959, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
29 May 1958, Topeka, Kansas, USA
14 March 1976, New York City, New York, USA
23 September 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
24 July 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 July 1938, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
9 November 1989, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
16 December 1961, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
24 November 1953, Nahant, Massachusetts, USA
12 April 1994, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
September 10, 2018
This isn't a movie. It's tonal warfare.
May 31, 2018
Chekhov would be appalled.
May 31, 2018
At times you feel like you're watching bits and pieces of two or three different films. Happily, they're all pretty good ones.
August 20, 2018
As entertaining and as lovingly crafted as it is, it fails to transcend.
May 25, 2018
A story full of passion and longing and rage and betrayal that comes across as abstract verging on bloodless.
September 09, 2018
We are left with the sense of a story that has been co-opted into the same accessible, middlebrow terrain that Chekhov was originally reacting against.
September 08, 2018
While certain themes are glossed over, the performances and DP Matthew J. Lloyd's lush cinematography offer some compensation.
September 10, 2018
Annette Bening in full flow is always worth one's attention, and a distinguished supporting cast for the most part matches her a large part of the way.
September 10, 2018
It feels like at times it's attempting to condense the drama...this leads more to the soap-ish end of the spectrum. There's an elliptical quality to the storytelling that I'm not quite sure works this time around.
September 07, 2018
Annette Bening is wonderfully haughty as Irina, the celebrated actor, visiting the family estate.
June 15, 2018
Mayer brings a labored hand to the proceedings and can't maximize his dynamite cast or the potential for salaciousness in Chekov's tangled web of characters.
May 24, 2018
Great, thoughtful acting can take you only so far, and "The Seagull" has been brought into close-up without ever coming into focus.
