Going All the Way

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Going All the Way
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mark Pellington
Written by	Dan Wakefield
Produced by	Tom Gorai Sigurjón Sighvatsson Tom Rosenberg
Starring	Jeremy Davies Ben Affleck Amy Locane Rachel Weisz Rose McGowan Jill Clayburgh Lesley Ann Warren
Cinematography	Bobby Bukowski
Edited by	Leo Trombetta
Music by	Stewart Copeland tomandandy Tim Brickley
Production companies	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Lakeshore Entertainment
Distributed by	Gramercy Pictures
Release date	19 September 1997 (1997-09-19) (United States)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$113,069

Going All the Way is an American 1997 film directed by Mark Pellington. The film was written by Dan Wakefield, based on his 1970 novel and starred Jeremy Davies, Ben Affleck, Rachel Weisz, Amy Locane and Rose McGowan. The film was shot on location in Indianapolis, IN, the setting of Wakefield's autobiographical novel.

Going All the Way was nominated for two awards at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, winning a "Special Recognition" for production designer Thérèse DePrez. McGowan, who attended Sundance to promote the film, has alleged that Harvey Weinstein raped her while at the festival that year.

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on Verve Records in September 1997 (Verve 314 537 908-2) including the song "Tangled and Tempted", co-written for the film by Indianapolis singer/songwriter/producer Tim Brickley.

Plot

Two young men return home to Indianapolis after serving time in the Army during the Korean War and search for love and fulfillment in middle America during the conservative 1950s.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Jeremy Davies	Williard "Sonny" Burns
Ben Affleck	Tom "Gunner" Casselman
Amy Locane	Buddy Porter
Rachel Weisz	Marty Pilcher
Rose McGowan	Gale Ann Thayer
Jill Clayburgh	Alma
Lesley Ann Warren	Nina

Critical reception

Stephen Holden of The New York Times did not care for the film, especially Pellington's direction:

When a filmmaker feels compelled to pump up a story through caricature and expressionistic visual tricks, it's usually a sign of distrust in the inherent drama of the material. In Going All the Way, a flashy movie adaptation of Dan Wakefield's popular 1970 novel about growing up in the heartland in the repressed 1950s, Mark Pellington, a director from the world of music video, has inflated a realistic memoir into a garish, hyperkinetic social satire.

Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars:

Going All the Way is a deeper, cleverer film than it first seems. Much of its strength depends on the imploding performance of Jeremy Davies.

External links

• Going All the Way at IMDb
• Going All the Way at the TCM Movie Database
• Going All the Way at Rotten Tomatoes
• Going All the Way at AllMovie
• Going All the Way at Box Office Mojo