Tomorrow You're Gone

Yes, I feel like Tom Hanks raising his hand and saying, "I don't get it." Charley (Stephen Dorff) gets out of prison and is going to perform a hit for Willem Dafoe. Nine minutes into the film you are going WTF as you realize Charley has some reality issues. We see Charley performing things he didn't do. Or did he do them in the past? Or is he imagining himself doing things? Armed with money, a gun, and a powder puff blue bowling ball bag, Charley meets Florance (Michelle Monaghan) on a bus. She takes him home with her, but Charley attempts to keep his head clear, why I don't know as he never seems to be all there. Florance tells us that "we all have layers" perhaps a key to this character story. Her character is supposed to be quirky, but it didn't seemed developed very well. By the end of the story, I didn't feel I had any real closure for this artsy film. Good Luck. If you liked this film try "Mysteria" another one I had trouble with. Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, brief TV nudity?

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I've wondering myself what's hell Willem Dafoe accepted be casting of this dull picture, the premise was factually auspicious, when the convict Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff) is about to be release receives an encode letter to kill someone under the order of the Buddha (Willem Dafoe) in advance he already receives a large amount of money and the gun for his bold assignment, he has an strange behavior as lone wolf, no friends, no connection to outside world at Cleveland, until meets occasionally a gorgeous girl florence (Michelle Monogham) on a bus, hereinafter she and Charlie spend a night just for sex, in next day he ought kill Chaney (Ken Rossall), he did with extreme difficult but unluckily Chaney has a guest blonde woman at house, this unexpected event he has to struggles with the woman, tied her and left him alive at closet, he believes that she doesn't recognized him, afterwards the movie enters in a merry-go-round limbo, with pointless stuffs, became slow paced and even boring, until Buddha appears and demands a clean job, the final is average and unpredictable as well, but overall is a weak thriller, the main character seemingly is absence, your dialogues are senseless also he is aimless, lacklustre proposal!! Resume: First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: Blu-Ray / Rating: 5

Yes, I feel like Tom Hanks raising his hand and saying, "I don't get it." Charley (Stephen Dorff) gets out of prison and is going to perform a hit for Willem Dafoe. Nine minutes into the film you are going WTF as you realize Charley has some reality issues. We see Charley performing things he didn't do. Or did he do them in the past? Or is he imagining himself doing things? Armed with money, a gun, and a powder puff blue bowling ball bag, Charley meets Florance (Michelle Monaghan) on a bus. She takes him home with her, but Charley attempts to keep his head clear, why I don't know as he never seems to be all there. Florance tells us that "we all have layers" perhaps a key to this character story. Her character is supposed to be quirky, but it didn't seemed developed very well. By the end of the story, I didn't feel I had any real closure for this artsy film. Good Luck. If you liked this film try "Mysteria" another one I had trouble with. Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, brief TV nudity?

A very sexist movie about a weak male character and a pretty female character that strangely tries to have sex with him all the time... It goes no further that that. Its all about them in the car talking bad dialogues that claim to be deep and dark but they're really just bad written. Didn't get to the end. Waste of good actors!

This is the story of a very troubled man who, on his way out of prison is asked to kill someone for a decent amount of money. He meets a sweet beautiful girl who "takes him in", no questions asked; trust at first sight. Yet this story revolves around the job he has at hand, the baggage that he's been carrying around making him sour, pissy, and defensive all the time, the girl who keeps trying to calm him down, relax him, cheer him up, and get him into bed with her, to no avail. This movie is very slow, somewhat confusing at times, and very, very dull. I had nothing, I mean, Nothing better to do when I started watching it, yet I could not stay through to the end, and I have seen my share of bad movies in my time. I did not want to believe the 3.7 rating it has considering the actors, but now I understand it. "Tomorrow You're Gone"... I was gone less than an hour into it.

This carefully crafted film kept me awake as I watched it in the wee hours. Each character was skillfully played and kept me guessing as to what they would do next. Unpredictable and dark, I still wonder if Florence wasn't an angel there to take Charlie home. The scenes in the forests were particularly good as the sounds of nature were allowed to take the place of music. I did find the reason to be a bit unclear as to why Defoe's character needed a hit carried out, but maybe I missed something. This movie is well worth your time to view. These actors worked very well together! ... Tried to be honest without ruining the end? Sigh....

This film is driven by many things, but certainly not by plot. This is clearly intentional. The title itself is a spoiler. This movie is another one of those "The Guy" and "The Girl" movies, but it works, more or less. The girl is Flo, and the guy is Sam/Charlie, and that's about as much as we ever know about them, assuming even those names are real. I have never seen a sexy woman throw herself at a man so extremely to no effect. I found myself yelling out loud several times, "Just do it with her!" (I am married, and my wife was watching too, and I don't eat hot pockets nor live in Mom's basement.) This was very frustrating, and that alone made this movie unique. Charlie was very, very brooding and that most sexy thing of all, vulnerable, and Flo moves in on him with the intensity of a cruise missile. They hook up, and when she's not trying to have kinky sex with him, often involving her feet, she does this "Hannibal Lector" thing on him from out of The Silence of the Lambs. She's in his head, she gets vague responses from her bizarre psychoanalytical probes, and then tries to get it on with him, repeatedly. Charlie is so tormented that he doesn't even notice her sexually. This is a redemption movie, and yes, as in many movies of this type, "The Guy" dies at the end, although I found the ending to be the aspect of the move that made the most sense. There are other things in the mix, including a bare-bones plot that was actually irrelevant.I liked this movie and as others have said, it's not for everyone. It's a psychological non-thriller, so to speak. The interplay between Flo and Charlie is, in it's slow paced, quirky way, quite intense. Much of the dialogue is of the New Age variety, both from The Buddha, Charlie's criminal mentor, and Flo herself. It's all pretty obscure. So, I hope I've helped you decide on this movie. I could condense my review to be: "WTF? But I liked it." This movie is why we use Redbox religiously.

TOMORROW YOU'RE GONE is no thriller, which is not, of course, an entirely bad thing. It's a strange, dreamlike, and fairly uneventful film about Charlie Rankin (Dorff) being released after a four-year stint in prison, intent on wreaking vengeance on those who put him there and performing "hits" against adversaries of "The Buddha"(Dafoe), another former--now dead?--inmate who acts as his ethereal mentor. He also meets "Florence Jane" (Monaghan) the girl of many-a-guy's dreams, but not Rankin's, who just wants to be friends with her. Florence Jane, it would seem, is a sort of guardian angel figure save, perhaps, the "guardian" part. Much of it is open to interpretation, and much of it simply doesn't make a whole lot of sense. More thematic and atmospheric than action-oriented, TOMORROW YOU'RE GONE is well-filmed and well-played, and much of the script (especially Florence Jane's) is quite memorable without being overly pretentious: See the quote from "The Buddha" used as my title here. TYG also has things to show and tell us about the futility of vengeance, the destructive nature of bitterness, and various other things. If only the plot were better. . .

Charlie Rankin (Stephen Dorff), recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William "The Buddha" Pettigrew (Willem Dafoe). Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane. They embark on a unlikely road trip, careening towards an unlikely redemption and uncertain resolution. Although this film had many good moments (such as the home invasion) and it is possibly Dorff's final acting to date (he has really blossomed in this role) it overall just seems too uneven and did not resonate well with me. The primary problem I had was with Florence. She was not someone I felt the audience could understand or appreciate. Why did Rankin like her? Their whole relationship is built on nothing. And yes, I understand this is a whimsical road trip without commitment... but she was just the wrong character for such a thing. And if there was a deeper message, I missed it. All that occurred to me is that Charlie Rankin has the same name as the Nazi in Orson Welles' "The Stranger". I sincerely doubt this was intentional, because trying to draw parallels is far too difficult -- Welles' Rankin is a false identity hiding from his criminal past. Rankin is this film uses the alias Samson and he, too, has a criminal past he cannot overcome. But that is it (and only works in the most vague way). The novel probably clears things up, but after seeing the film I have little motivation to seek it out.