I just watched this peace of art in my living room on a LCD, and a movie with Laura Linney is always some kind of a wonderful experience. The story is touching, Rob Morrow is superb, Craig Sheffer intense as ever. Humor is here, great performing is here. The relationships are profound, you really get in tune with a deceased painter that wants to live a life out of the blue, that can love just anybody else but is afraid to tell. This is sweet cinema as a maze of passion can be. As I read: can a man and a woman remain just friends? Can two friends remain like so when a woman comes in? If you want your life changed for a 100 minutes go grab it right away.

I've seen a lot movies in my life, but I must say Maze is the first one where really everything is exactly like I want it to be. It's so perfect. The story, the actors, the camera, the settings, the music... It's just one big wonderful feeling. I even think it's not necessary to summarize the story here because it's not the story which makes that film so great. It's the thing between Lyle and Callie. My English is not good enough to describe it (I'm from Germany). It's how they treat each other, the way they are with each other, how they look at each other (they almost don't need to talk, you know everything when you look into their faces, especially Lyle's longing for Callie, it's acted so good, you fall in love with her, too) and all these little things between the lines. That's why I can watch it again and again without being bored, because it carries a feeling, a mood, a state of mind, don't know how to tell... Watching this movie is like listening to your favorite music or watching a painting which really caught you, or sitting in the dark and watching the stars, like the feeling, when you come home in the winter and drink a cup of tea and you can feel it running slowly down your throat into your stomach and balley. Art is, what touches your soul. Maze is art. And please, it is not a movie about Tourette! If one reduces it to that, he hasn't understood one little thing. It's just one part. It's about love and how difficult it can be to find it, and especially if you don't serve common sense. I know what I'm talking about, it's always the same, no matter why you stay outside of the crowed. Maze gives hope and courage. Don't know how someone could create such a good movie... Thanks a lot to Rob Morrow and crew! Want more! Now I think I've subbed enough... :-) I love it!

I loved this movie. Rob Morrow did such a great job portraying Tourette syndrome accurately and it was an informative movie about TS without being completely about TS. It was a character who happened to have it but who was not defined by it. You really get a sense of how having this disorder affects his life, especially when occasionally the camera will cut to the view as Lyle sees it when he is ticcing. There are so many movies that if they do reference to Tourette syndrome it is in an inaccurate or sometimes rather mean spirited way. It is refreshing to see movies like this one. Another movie that portrays Tourette syndrome well is "The Tic Code" with Gregory Hines. The music for Maze was just incredible, I don't know if there is a soundtrack for this movie but if not, there should be. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes a sweet romantic heartwarming story and would like to learn something more about Tourette syndrome.

"Maze" can be a bit of a misleading title. It seems to imply some sort of maze or puzzle, when it is in fact the last name of the character, NYC painter and sculptor Lyle Maze (Rob Morrow) who suffers from Tourette's syndrone. His best friend Mike, a doctor who volunteers for months at a time in far-away places, has been a steady number with pretty Callie (Laura Linney). Lyle does his best to cope with his illness, which greatly magnifies itself under stress. Such things as a new model posing nude for him, a casual date, seeing his father in the hospital, the impending first kiss with a woman. Photographically this is shown through Lyle's eyes as jerky, blurry, almost black and white images. That technique works very well in this film, to try and give the viewer an approximantion of what his illness does to him.some SPOILERS - Mike takes off yet another time, Callie tells him it is over, then finds out she is pregnant, considers an abortion but decides (good for her!) to have the baby. She and Lyle get closer, still just good friends, she poses for him, he agrees to help her through labor and delivery. Already attracted to her, Lyle falls in love with Callie. But he writes to Mike to let him know about the baby, Mike shows up shortly after Callie and baby "Will" go home, Mike and Lyle have an argument over Callie, the film ends with Mike on yet another trip, Lyle and Callie watching year-old Will play in the sand.What I like so much about "Maze" is that it doesn't take the usual approach, does not take the easy way out. Not everyting works out "happily ever after." As the ending song says, "Even a blind man can tell when he is walking in the sun." Metaphorically, Lyle has learned that he "is walking in the sun", through his relationship with Callie, helping her through pregnancy and delivery, even if he must forever suffer with Tourette's.I've been a fan of Rob Morrow's since his role as Doctor Joel on Northern Exposure. He wrote and directed Maze and has turned out a fine, thoughtful film. The Chemistry and Physics made by Morrow and Laura Linney works very well, so well they seems more like real people going through these struggles, not actors. Linney bravely does scenes with full frontal nudity, posing for Lyle. This is not a pretty film to watch in many places, because it dares to address some tough issues, but the overall effect is quite good. I give this film, "Maze", high marks.