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Released Jul 18, 2008

1h 39m

Drama

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Several years after their lives met in tragedy, a single mother (Minnie Driver) and a gambling addict (Jeremy Renner) must reconcile with the past.

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Critics Consensus

A story of redemption held together with flashbacks, Take has moments of emotional intensity, but is ultimately undone by preachiness.

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Hank Sartin

Time Out

Rated: 2/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Joshua Land

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

A dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.

Rated: 0/5

Aug 15, 2008

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Easily one of the hidden jewels of the 2008 Indianapolis International Film Festival.

Rated: 3.5/4.0

Sep 25, 2020

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Jeff Vice

Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

This sullen dramatic thriller is introspective to the point of being navel-gazing. And its up-to-interpretation form of 'conclusion' is fairly pretentious.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 12, 2008

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Ron Wilkinson

Monsters and Critics

It's close but no cigar for first time writer/director Charles Oliver as he bashes his unfortunate audience with a preachy and one-dimensional exposition of revenge wearing restoration clothing.

Rated: 5/10

Aug 18, 2008

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Horror fan 4

Lead by 2 great performances this crime thriller was really good. 2 lives cross paths because a gambler who's in debt and a struggling mom trying to help her son get a good education. Very well made and heartbreaking.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/24/24

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Ted B

3 stars; the first thing I need to tell you is that I'm a big Miinnie Driver fan. All too often she played the sidekick or B-roll in movies. For me; when she got the chance to play lead, she doesn't disappoint. Jeremy Renner played a (stereotypical for him at the time) role as a weak willed bum. He did a very good job in a difficult role including an execution scene. This 15 year old film was a message movie supporting a movement to get state governments to allow Crime Victims the ability to face the perpetrator. I'm not real sure about the success of that movement. But this film made a pretty strong statement for it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/22/23

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darren h

Superb psychologically confrontational and stirring film! With a tremendous theme of reconciliation! Everyone should see this.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

I have too say I was interested too see how these people would cross paths. You figure out real quick that the guy did something too the son. For a free Amazon prime movie it wasn't bad.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Audience Member

Winds up being nothing more than a totally bizarre propaganda campaign for Restorative Justice. I can handle that, but what lost me is the fact that at absolutely no point from beginning to end was I interested in the events, or in the characters.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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3 3/4's--This is a very slow movie, but for some reason I kept with it. I am glad that I did. I found it thought provoking, tragic, and moving. The tragic events of this movie will stick with me for some time, I imagine. I DO NOT, however, understand how they just wrote the dad out. I am assuming that somehow the marriage ended, and she was single by the end...

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Synopsis

Several years after their lives met in tragedy, a single mother (Minnie Driver) and a gambling addict (Jeremy Renner) must reconcile with the past.

Director: Charles Oliver
Producer: Chet Thomas
Screenwriter: Charles Oliver
Production Co: Telos Video
Rating: R (Intense Emotional Impact|Some Violent Content)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 18, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 9, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.1K
Runtime: 1h 39m

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