Short Stories
Seen it?2012 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Right up the alley of anyone who loves trying to stay one step ahead and people who need a good giggle. Low effort, high reward: just press play.
- The mood
- Funny with heart, tense.
- The pace
- Gives its people room to develop, at 1 hr 45 min.
- What might put you off
- It's in Russian, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Not the pick if you want something heavy or meaningful.
A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them. The situations range from realistic to absurd to thrilling to create a rich portrait of life in contemporary Russia and showcase the thoughts, feelings and ambitions of people who live there.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Box office & staying powerBelow par
$810K worldwide; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 2K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Mikhail Segal
- Andrey MerzlikinEvent Planner
- Igor UgolnikovPresident
- Tamara MironovaAnna Petrovna
- Konstantin YushkevichMaks
- Vladislav LeshkevichWriter
- Lyubov AksyonovaGirl
- Daria NosikOlya
- Sergey FetisovGovernor
- Elena NesterovaIrina
- Vasily MichkovAleksey