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2013 film by Liza Johnson

Hateship, Loveship
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLiza Johnson
Written byMark Poirier
Based on"Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage"
by Alice Munro
Produced byCassian Elwes
Dylan Sellers
Jamin O'Brien
Michael Benaroya
Robert Ogden Barnum
StarringKristen Wiig
Hailee Steinfeld
Guy Pearce
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Nick Nolte
CinematographyKasper Tuxen
Edited byMichael Taylor
Music byDickon Hinchliffe
Production
companies		Benaroya Pictures
Venture Forth
Fork Films
The Film Community
Union Entertainment Group
Distributed byIFC Films
Release dates
  • September 7, 2013 (2013-09-07) (TIFF)
  • April 11, 2014 (2014-04-11) (United States)
Running time102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.8 million
Box office$83,008

Hateship, Loveship is a 2013 American drama film directed by Liza Johnson and written by Mark Poirier, based on the 2001 short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" by Alice Munro. The film stars Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte. It premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2013.

Plot

Johanna Parry must move to a new town to begin work as a housekeeper for Mr. McCauley, an elderly man who needs help keeping house, and to be a caretaker for McCauley's granddaughter, Sabitha. She meets Sabitha's father and McCauley's son-in-law, Ken, who does not live with Sabitha or McCauley, but instead resides in Chicago. Sabitha's best friend, Edith, tells Johanna (after Johanna asks where Sabitha's mother lives) that Ken's wife died several years ago. After inviting Johanna and Sabitha to dinner, Ken writes a friendly note to Johanna, which his daughter delivers. Johanna writes a response letter and Sabitha's friend Edith offers to take it to the post office and mail it. Instead, she intercepts the letter and, as a cruel joke, the two teenagers forge a love note from Ken, addressed to Johanna. Then they set up a fake email account for Ken (who does not have email). They impersonate him, responding to love emails from Johanna. "Ken" calls her "my only friend" but things may change when "Ken" asks Johanna to visit him in Chicago.

Cast

Production

Filming

The shooting of the film, originally titled Hateship, Friendship, began in November 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The film was shot with Arri Alexa digital cameras and Kowa anamorphic lenses. Michael Benaroya is financing the film.

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 51% based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 6.0/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Kristen Wiig's vibrant performance is almost worth the price of admission -- and it has to be, because Hateship Loveship doesn't have much else going for it." At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post gave the film three stars, praising Johnson's direction. Sheila O’Malley of RogerEbert.com and Dana Stevens of Slate commended Johnson for not veering into melodrama. In contrast, Amy Nicholson of LA Weekly praised the cast, but said the film is "too painful to be uplifting, too private to explore what was clearly child abuse". Bilge Ebiri in Vulture said the film suffers from tonal unevenness and underdeveloped subplots and characters.

Wiig's performance as Johanna received near unanimous praise. Hornaday wrote Wiig's "cipherlike impassivity at first threatens to make 'Hateship Loveship' fatally inert, but then begins to pay off as the film heads to one of the more startling third acts in recent memory." She added "we’ve never seen a protagonist quite like Johanna, who on the one hand personifies female self-abnegation at its most domesticated, but on the other embodies the sheer will at its most stubborn. She knows the value of elbow grease, whether she’s redeeming a dirty kitchen floor or even a scruffier human soul." O’Malley gave the film 4 out of 4 stars and wrote, "In the short story on which the film is based, Alice Munro writes of Johanna: 'It was the rare person who took to her, and she'd been aware of that for a long time.' Wiig has absorbed that character description until Johanna seems as though a role she was born to play. There is not a hint of condescension in her portrayal. You worry for her. You are embarrassed for her. You feel protective; you wince at her openness. You keep discovering how much you have under-estimated her. It's a great performance."

References

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  10. ^ Stevens, Dana (April 10, 2014). "Hateship Loveship". Slate. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
  11. Nicholson, Amy (April 17, 2014). "In Hateship Loveship, Kristen Wiig Plays a Debbie Downer". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on April 19, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
  12. Ebiri, Bilge (April 12, 2014). "Ebiri: Kristen Wiig's Presence Is Too Much for Hateship Loveship". Vulture. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
  13. Scott, A.O. (April 10, 2014). "Don't Hoodwink the Help, Dear". The New York Times. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
  14. Rea, Steven (April 25, 2014). "Dauntless heroine caught in a fake courtship". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
  15. ^ O’Malley, Sheila (April 11, 2014). "Hateship Loveship". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved July 27, 2023.

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