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Watch: Manchester by the Sea 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, north of the city. His brother’s heart has given out suddenly, and he’s been named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew. As if losing his only sibling and doubts about raising a teenager weren’t enough, his return to the past re-opens an unspeakable tragedy..
Plot: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
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	7.8/10 Votes: 281,569
	96% | RottenTomatoes
	96/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 5057 Popularity: 22.172 | TMDB

Reviews:

American dramatist Kenneth Lonergan’s third feature, after his career has been punishingly stalled by the ill-fated MARGARET (2011), made in 2005 as a much-anticipated follow-up to his sterling debut YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (2000), then embroiled in the lawsuit purgatory with the film’s producers and only would be permitted for a limited release 6 years after, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA impacts as a resounding comeback and it is as good as you can get while toiling away with thumping grief and inconsolable guilt.

Lee Chandler (Affleck), a building janitor in Boston, he is the dour and withdrawn everyman type who distances himself from rest of the world and occasionally courts unwarranted bar brawl to unleash the smothering anger, so routinely the film will slowly mine into his profoundly buried tale-of-woe which would explain how he has fetched up to the current walking-dead state, and in this case, it is a helluva calamity, the most heart-rending accident could ever happen to a parent, and he has no one but himself to answer for. Receiving the news that his brother Joe (Chandler) died in a sudden heart attack, brings Lee back to his hometown, the titular Manchester-by-the-Sea where flashback adroitly interleaves into the narrative to refresh Lee’s memory (edited with pellucid correlations with what he experiences now) where the concealed secret incubates, and would eventually unfolds in the murky, snow night accompanied by Tomaso Albinoni and Remo Giazotto’s ADAGIO IN G MINOR, a sublime sequence transmits a synesthetic frisson which can knock dead its armchair viewers.

In Joe’s will, he names Lee to be the guardian of his son, the 16-year-old high-school jock Patrick (Hedges), which takes Lee aback, a resultant, seemingly life-affirming uncle-nephew bonding process takes its spin sensibly on veracity and wrestles with both Patrick’s suppressed grievance toward his father’s demise (Lee’s heart condition has been long diagnosed, so that it is more like a time-bomb ticking situation), and Lee’s attempt to re-settle in the town on the face of aghast memories and unrelieved penitence, in a pivotal scene, when Lee’s ex-wife Randi (Williams) pleads him for forgiveness and reconciliation after she has been finally capable of moving on to form a new family and embrace a new life, but feels obliged to proffer some extrication for him too, but things are different for the culpable party, not everyone can make peace with the past, however rational it might sound, some pain can be alleviated through time but other stays, thus one must brave himself to live with it for the rest of his life, that is the affirming life-philosophy Lonergan tries to pass on to his audience through studiously delving into the realistic double-bind based on an über-dramatic back-bone, which appears to be an abiding mythos in all his three directorial works to date.

Casey Affleck finds his footing in inhabiting Lee with a simmering intensity underneath his alternatively inscrutable/apathetic/distraught veneer, a performance is so aptly up his alley (a combo of hang-dog frustration and whimpering elocution) and to call it the performance of the year wouldn’t be such a stretch. Michelle Williams, shoe-horned in a peripheral role, but manifests herself as a sniveling and imploring scene-stealer just in one scene, she dangles us with immense curiosity about how her character has gone through the catastrophe, but essentially this film is Lee’s story. Lucas Hedges gets a windfall for being cast in a plum role and nominated for an Oscar, which could be a double-edged sword for the future of his budding career, but as credible and affecting as his portrayal is, the credit should mostly given for Lonergan’s well-rounded script of a rather bratty teenager; also Kyle Chandler is virtually next-in-line for a renaissance on the big screen after starring a string of high-caliber Oscar-baits, from ARGO, ZERO DARK THIRTY (both in 2012), to THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013), CAROL (2015) and now this, all in small roles but his presence looms larger each time.

The cinematography is bracingly crisp and un-showy, a modest production design and an unobtrusive score borrows many classical pieces, MANCHESTER BY THE CITY is a contemplative continuation in the aftermath of a latter-day Greek tragedy, which elevates Lonergan’s status as one of the most outstanding cinematic story-teller currently from USA soil, and one can bet, co-producer Matt Damon must secretly rue the day that he couldn’t commit himself to Casey’s role which would have earned him a coveted Oscar statuette as an actor, and in hindsight, his preference to star in Zhang Yimou’s Chinese monster fantasy THE GREAT WALL (2016) now looks like a dumb decision.

Great characters movie. There is little to say about this movie that has not been told yet.

The story is simple but interesting and well told. The photography and the location of Manchester-by-the-sea is a very well chosen and the directing is very good.

And on top of everything else is its cast. A very well chosen cast that performs at a fantastic level with Casey Affleck delivering one of the most breathtaking performances of the last years. You can feel his pain with every attitude and gesture.

The encounter in the street with Michelle Williams is just astonishingly well done while the one at his brother’s room after having picked up his things from Boston is a summit on the movie.

A very good movie and a very well deserved Oscar.

It’s a very engaging, character driven story, it’s good.
Lee Chandler is made to take on his nephew after his brother dies an untimely death, Lee is incredibly depressed and affected by his past.

As the film develops, so does the relationship between Lee and Patrick, we learn why Lee is the way he is, and the events that helped to shape him, and make him such a complex figure.

I haven’t seen a film like this for some time, it’s purely melodrama, but to it’s credit, it’s very good. Take a tip from Me, if you’re in a mood, or feeling down, do not watch this, it will compound your low spirits. If you’re up for an engaging, moving two hours on intense character play, you’ll find this very good.

I had absolutely no idea just how good an actor Casey Affleck is, and that’s my own fault, he is absolutely tremendous throughout, he makes Lee a truly interesting guy.

The music is a real hindrance here, it detracts from the film, it isn’t bad, it’s just wrong for the film. Adagio in G Minor, it’s a glorious piece of music, but it is so out of place, it jars uncomfortably at a key point.

It takes a little time to warm up, and for you to engage, when it does, it’s an excellent film, 8/10.

Some psychological wounds don’t heal
Manchester by the Sea (2016) was written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan.

Casey Affleck stars as Lee Chandler, a janitor in Quincy, Massachusetts. (Quincy is about 1/2 hour away from Boston.) It’s a dead-end job, Lee isn’t well-liked by the tenants, and his primary pastime appears to be going into bars and getting into fights.

Early in the film, we learn about the death of Lee’s brother, who lives in Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts. (Manchester by the Sea is a small seacoast town near Gloucester.) This leaves his 16-year-old son, Lee’s nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges), without a guardian. (Patrick’s mother is gone.) Everyone assumes that Lee will quit his job in Quincy, come back to Manchester by the Sea, get a job there, and take care of his nephew.

People know that Lee has had a terrible trauma in his life, but they don’t perceive that this trauma has broken him psychologically. We learn that this is not a mental wound that can be healed. He’s broken and, apparently, will never get better.

The rest of the movie consists of flashbacks to earlier events, alternating with the present-time events taking place day to day. The movie is so well crafted that it’s hard to know where it will go and how it will end. Director Lonergan doesn’t hint about what will happen on the next day, let alone the next week. This keeps us, in the audience, spellbound and really eager to see what comes next.

Often, a film rests on the shoulders of the protagonist. In this movie, Casey Affleck is so good that the film could, indeed, rest on his shoulders. However, that’s not necessary, because Lucas Hedges does a superb job as Lee’s nephew, and the supporting cast members are excellent.

In addition–although it’s hard to describe–the movie just looks right. The hospital staff, the people in the bar, the people in the police station, the people in the dockyard and in the garage all look as if they belong there, and weren’t just brought in to appear in their scene and then go home.

As I write this review, Manchester by the Sea has an incredible 8.5 IMDb rating. This puts it at the same level as Gladiator and Apocalypse Now. I think it deserves this rating, and I expect the movie to move into IMDb’s top 100 films, and stay there for the foreseeable future.

The film will work well enough on the small screen, but the large screen will be better. We saw Manchester by the Sea at Rochester’s excellent Little Theatre. On a weekend in mid-December, 2016, the Little was screening three films with IMDb ratings over 8. My compliments to the programmers at the Little for making such great movies available to those of us who don’t live in NYC, Chicago, or LA.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 17 min (137 min)
Budget 9000000
Revenue 78988148
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Kenneth Lonergan
Writer Kenneth Lonergan
Actors Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler
Country United States
Awards Won 2 Oscars. 129 wins & 269 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa XT, Canon K35 and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (3.4K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema