Parallel Lives is a 1994 TV movie, directed by Linda Yellen. The movie resumes some actors and similar patterns of the previous Yellen's work, Chantilly Lace. It is Dudley Moore's last film role. It was broadcasted August 14, 1994 on the Showtime cable network. The movie was developed by Linda Yellen with the assistance of the Sundance Institute. As for Chantilly Lace, it uses "guided improvisations": the actors after receiving some general character-outlines were free to improvise. The Television-movies received mixed reviews. The New York Times critic John Leonard argued: "Parallel Lives is... injured in its lightness of being by Yellen's added structure. But until it sinks in murky narrative waters, it's a marvel of raw edges and wild wit and surprise cunning, of craft that goes up like a kite to catch some lightning". The Variety critic Ray Loynd wrote: "When the movie works best , this is a movie that tends to make The Big Chill look sodden". On the other hand, Lynne Heffley opened her review for the Los Angeles Times with these words: "From the sublime to the ridiculous and the ridiculous has the edge in Parallel Lives".
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| Release date: | August 14, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Linda Yellen |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |