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Heights
Heights
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Terrio
Screenplay by	Amy Fox
Based on	Heights; by Amy Fox
Produced by	Ismail Merchant; Richard Hawley;
Starring	Glenn Close; Elizabeth Banks; James Marsden; Jesse Bradford;
Cinematography	Jim Denault
Edited by	Sloane Klevin
Music by	Ben Butler; Martin Erskine;
Production; company	Merchant Ivory Productions
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates	January 24, 2005 (Sundance); June 17, 2005 (United States);
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.3 million

Heights is a 2005 American drama film directed by Chris Terrio and written by Amy Fox, based on her 2001 stage play of the same name. It follows a pivotal twenty-four hours in the interconnected lives of five New Yorkers.^[1] It stars Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Glenn Close, Jesse Bradford, and John Light. Numerous prominent actors such as Eric Bogosian, George Segal, and Isabella Rossellini appear in supporting roles.

Heights was produced by Merchant Ivory Productions. It premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2005, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on June 17, 2005, through Sony Pictures Classics.

Plot

Over the course of 24 hours, a group of New Yorkers, whose lives are interconnected, must make pivotal decisions about their relationships. Most notably, Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her engagement to Jonathan, while her award-winning actress mother Diana suspects that her husband is having an affair and thus questions the open nature of her marriage.

Cast

Glenn Close - Diana Lee
Elizabeth Banks - Isabel Lee
James Marsden - Jonathan Kestler
Jesse Bradford - Alec Lochka
John Light - Peter Cole
Rufus Wainwright - Jeremy
Denis O'Hare - Andrew
Eric Bogosian - Henry
George Segal - Rabbi Mendel
Andrew Howard - Ian
Isabella Rossellini - Liz
Matthew Davis - Mark
Michael Murphy - Jesse
Chandler Williams - Juilliard Macbeth
Bess Wohl - Juilliard Lady Macbeth
Thomas Lennon - Marshall
Jim Parsons - Oliver
Angel Desai - Laura

Release

In January 2004, Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to the film for North and Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Spain.^[2] The film premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2005, before receiving a limited theatrical release on June 17.

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 63% of 104 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "Yet another movie about relationships in the Big Apple, Heights is never dull thanks to a competent cast."^[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[4] Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, stating that "its chief pleasure comes through simple voyeurism. It is entertaining to see the lives of complex people become brutally simple all of a sudden.^[5] Variety noted the quality of the ensemble acting.^[6]