This is a reprint of our review from the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
There's a heady question at the center of Oren Moverman's "Time Out Of Mind": what is it that makes us real, to truly exist to those around us? This is not an existential question, but an inquiry into the values we place on those we choose to observe. Is government issued documentation proof enough to give someone services or acknowledgement? Or is it a job, which allows us to contribute to industry and society? Or maybe it's a network of friends and family providing the net of humanity around us? George Hammond (Richard Gere) has none of these things, which makes him invisible, not only to the sprawling metropolis of New York City around him, but to himself.
It has been years since George has had a roof over his head consistently, and he stubbornly and naively describes his status as "in between places." As the film opens, he's once again out on the streets, booted from the...
