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Chrystal (2004) 6.2
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6.2/10 from 1,228 users
Metascore: 65/100
Reviews: 48 user | 16 critic | 8 from Metacritic.com Sixteen years after the accident that claimed his son's life and permanently injured his wife, a man returns to his home in search of redemption. Director:Ray McKinnonWriter:Ray McKinnon |
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Sixteen years after the accident that claimed his son's life and permanently injured his wife, a man returns to his home in search of redemption.
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Life is hard. Love is simple.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for sexuality, nudity, drug content, violence and languageParents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 January 2004 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USABox Office
Opening Weekend:
$12,814 (USA) (8 April 2005)Gross:
$80,701 (USA) (17 June 2005)Company Credits
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Chrystal is a movie that just won't leave you alone after you've seen it. It takes its time and burrows under your skin. Scenes take on a feeling of real time not 'reel time'. Directed by supremely talented Ray McKinnon, produced by McKinnon and Lisa Blount who completely possesses the title role, this film is a haunting look at what happens to people who will not and in fact, cannot put their overwhelming and powerful feelings into words. Someone once said, "There are rooms of experience that you and I will never enter." Well, that may be true in most cases, but McKinnon and his cast take you into one of these rooms and leave you there long enough so that you won't soon forget it. Balanced skillfully between moments that will make you twist and turn in your seat and moments of unexpected levity, this dark, Gothic Southern tale of loss leads to a strange kind of redemption. It will raise questions long after you leave the cinema. And how many movies these days do that? Don't miss it. It's a jewel.