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7.3/10   158 votes
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Director:
Udayan Prasad
Writers:
Pete Hamill (story) and
Erin Dignam (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
11 April 2009 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
When slow is good, and actors shine more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

William Hurt
Maria Bello ... May

Kristen Stewart ... Martine

Eddie Redmayne ... Gordy

Emmanuel Cohn ... Doctor
Nurith Cohn ... Nurse

Veronica Russell ... Warden Genaro
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Eric F. Adams ... Bank Accessor

Barbara Balentine ... Grocery store customer

Ross Britz ... Blonde's Friend

Lisha Brock ... Waitress

Victor Brunette ... Chippy White
Grover Coulson ... Farnsworth
Lucy Faust ... Snotty girl in diner

Aimee Spring Fortier ... Teenage mother

Ross Francis ... Boyfriend

Jeff Galpin ... Cop #2

Douglas M. Griffin ... Cop
Michael D. Kennedy ... Tony Freckles

Rebecca Newman ... Ilene
Bello Nock ... Bello Nock

Holly O'Quin ... Female nurse

Ashlynn Ross ... Delivery Girl
Shayne Tingle ... Ferry Driver

John Gregory Willard ... Blonde
Dawna Williams ... Waitress
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Additional Details

Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Morgan City, Louisiana, USA

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18 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
When slow is good, and actors shine, 19 January 2008
9/10
Author: ken_eisner from United States

A perfect crescendo. During an admittedly slow first half of the film, the audience is drawn in to the actors and the cajun background, its lush greenery and its languid place in Americana.

The actors hold up brilliantly at this pace -- William Hurt is a standout and a more-than-worthwhile Oscar candidate as the sullen, "ghost"-like ex-con and Eddie Redmayne jumps to the fore as a bizarre, overgrown child. The scenery and the pull of post-Katrina New Orleans is powerful, forcing personal choices and sticking in the back of our minds.

Then, when the action turns, and the plot suddenly speeds forward for the latter half of the movie, the viewer has already been drawn so deep inside these rich, pained characters and the twisted swampland that its emotional force, punctuated by minute changes in Hurt's eyes, knowingly elicits empathy and sympathy.

The force of the movie is the slowness, the languid pace that draws the viewer in, and the acting, as good an ensemble as anything that I've viewed this year. It is slow, but slow can be good, good as a cajun conversation.

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