Downtown Owl

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2023

1 hr. 31 min.

Comedy

Drama

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Downtown Owl, based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman, is a Reagan-era dark comedy set in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota, in the days leading up to the region's blizzard of the century. When Julia Rabia (Lily Rabe), a restless English teacher, moves to Owl from cosmopolitan Milwaukee, she throws herself into the lives of the locals. Despite being unsure whether she's attempting to escape from home, or desperately trying to find it, Julia begins to let loose and forges friendships and romances that blur the lines between appropriate and totally messed up. From Horace (Ed Harris), a retired farmer with a secret, to Vance (Henry Golding) a depressed, bison farming Romeo, to Mitch (August Rosenstein), a lovelorn backup quarterback, Julia becomes part of a community that's trying to invent its own happiness... even in the heart of a blizzard.

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Hamish Linklater

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Lily Rabe

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Henry Golding

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Lily Rabe

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

The filmmakers also fumble an absolutely cringe-y subplot about the football coach...

Rated: 2/4

Apr 27, 2024

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Tomris Laffly

TheWrap

In one scene Rabe’s fish-out-of-water Julia cries out, “Wait! I’m confused.” Well, one couldn’t have put it any better about the totality of this movie.

Jun 11, 2023

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Kate Erbland

indieWire

Klosterman’s vision of this tiny, insulated world was never this neat and tidy, a lesson that has not translated to its cinematic companion. It’s a slice of life, surely.

Rated: C+

Jun 9, 2023

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Stephen Silver

Splice Today

A not particularly strong adaptation of Chuck Klosterman's worst book

Rated: 2/5

Apr 26, 2024

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Michelle Swope

Elements of Madness

Rabe and Linklater’s impressive directorial debut, Downtown Owl, makes the audience feel at home in the tiny town of Owl, North Dakota, and that’s pretty remarkable.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 24, 2024

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

Struggles to manage personalities and motivations, gradually trading a story for psychological splatter that’s likely more interesting to the filmmakers than the audience.

Rated: C

Apr 23, 2024

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Synopsis

Downtown Owl, based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman, is a Reagan-era dark comedy set in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota, in the days leading up to the region's blizzard of the century. When Julia Rabia (Lily Rabe), a restless English teacher, moves to Owl from cosmopolitan Milwaukee, she throws herself into the lives of the locals. Despite being unsure whether she's attempting to escape from home, or desperately trying to find it, Julia begins to let loose and forges friendships and romances that blur the lines between appropriate and totally messed up. From Horace (Ed Harris), a retired farmer with a secret, to Vance (Henry Golding) a depressed, bison farming Romeo, to Mitch (August Rosenstein), a lovelorn backup quarterback, Julia becomes part of a community that's trying to invent its own happiness... even in the heart of a blizzard.

Director: Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe
Screenwriter: Hamish Linklater
Production Co: LSG Productions , Kill Claudio Productions, Three Point Capital, Lucky 13 Productions, Esme Grace Media/COIL
Rating: R (Some Drug Use|Sexual References|Language)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English

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