ALL DAY LONG
All Day Long is a film about two teenagers in love in New Jersey.
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“A universal story... directed with wit and sensitivity.”
— Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun
“A singularly believable (sometimes painfully so) depiction of a phase of life easily forgotten after it's over. The actors are remarkable.”
— Geoffrey O'Brien, editor in chief of the Library of America and the author of
The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century
"Touching… indefinably haunting… The viewer is made to feel the gradual chilling of the atmosphere by subtle and indirect means… a very assured piece of work from a very talented filmmaker."
— Peter Matthews, Sight and Sound
"All Day Long is great… funny and crushing… it has a surprising sadness that stayed with me… the actors are terrific."
— Noah Baumbach, director of The Squid and the Whale
"All Day Long brings out a certain kind of calm disillusionment that is not found often in cinema these days... Ellis Cahill and Henry Glovinsky share a very unique on-screen chemistry. In their roles as the teenage lovers, it never feels like they're just fictional characters from a film. They represent echoes of our own selves when we were their age; they represent the aimlessness and the naivety that everyone feels at that time in their lives... This is perhaps one of the most painfully accurate depictions of first-love."
-- Gautam Valluri, Broken Projector
“Engaging... [All Day Long] highlights the true awkwardness that comprises most teenage love.”
— Baltimore City Paper
“Great pace and feel... tremendous performances.”
— Jay Duplass, director of The Puffy Chair
"Graceful yet bittersweet, reflective though not indulgent, and realistic while avoiding the judgmental... heartbreaking."
— Noralil Ryan Fores, Short End Magazine
"[All Day Long] encapsulates the awkwardness of adolescence and reminds us of the dividing line between youth and maturity… cinematographer Mark Schwartzbard captures a quiet desolation percolating within New Jersey's bucolic back streets, woods and deserted shopping centers, a perfect backdrop for [the actors'] wholly natural performances... it's an accomplished merger of tight, controlled technique with dialogue and situations brimming with truth and poignancy."
—Ray Young, Flickhead
“Simple, poetic, and gut-wrenchingly bleak. I love it.”
— Leah Meyerhoff, director of Twitch
“[All Day Long] captures a poignant moment seldom represented in teen romance films.”
— Amy Taubin, Film Comment
"Sensitive... intelligent... The rare type of short film that feels like it would have made a good feature-length production... I found the characters so engaging, the visual style so crisp and clear that I would have followed the action into the next day."
—Mike Everleth, Badlit.com
"Poignant and observant short film, All Day Long offers a glimpse of teenage romance rarely seen on-screen in most films or TV series made for teens... beautifully paced... the naturalistic settings quietly underscore the emotional transformations of the film's central characters... The actors' performances are remarkably subtle in their depiction of a familiar, but often forgotten, story from teenage life."
– Chuck Tryon, The Chutry Experiment
"Three and a half stars... the tone is authentic... lively and universal, colored by that tricky adolescent dance – the seemingly inter-species communication between boys and girls."
- Jenn Sutkowski, Mercury Magazine
"Really, really, really good."
—Michael Tully, director of Cocaine Angel and Silver Jew