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      Hard Shoulder

      2012 1h 26m Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 20% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score On a weekend trip to get away from their busy lives, Carl (Wil Johnson) and his family spend the night in an old roadside diner. They are captured by vagrants during the night and Carl must come up with an escape plan before they disappear. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member The relatively high production values lull you into a false sense of security, which is brutally ripped away as soon as the 'acting' begins. Such an awful collection of wooden deliveries and histrionic hamming that it makes you want to stick your eyeballs in a cocktail and get so drunk you think they're olives. The terrible script, which sees a bickering couple throwing half-baked insults at each other, while their detestable teenage kids whine and nag, is so obvious and po-faced it becomes unintentionally hilarious. Jamie Foreman is a decent actor - the only one in this film - but he has to deliver a series of cringe-worthy lines like threatening the husband with the suggestion he'll make the wife 'choke his chicken' - because violent rapists really speak like that. Despite being deepest England, the inbreds constantly call everyone Boy, as if desperately hoping they might be transported to the set of Wrong Turn 12. A dismal failure with a cop out ending (it was all a dream - really?), this is bargain-bucket horror at its (almost) very worst. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member not a bad film,starts off ok good story but as the film reaches the end it's nothing great,Jamie foreman plays his part Well but other then that give it a miss Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Dunno what the other reviewers were expecting but clearly they missed the entire point of the movie - that redemption takes more than just being apologetic for your misdeeds. It's recognising and understanding everything that is wrong with a person. What is on the surface isn't the story - it's the shroud for everything that lies subtextually in this narrative about one man struggling to deal with guilt - seeing no further than a sequence of events played out in an environment you think is real but clearly isn't is just half the story. It's not a case of what - it's also a case of how. What does it mean and how do all the events and characters represent the main character? If the reviewer can't see that then they really have no idea how to critique this film nor should they. Audiences need to educate themselves beyond the superficial if their opinions are to carry any weight in review. This movie easily rates a 3.5 if not a 4 for being thought provoking and wholly different to other UK fare. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member AKA Dead End Didn't love it. A group of crazies tie up a family and torturer them. There is an ok twist at the end, but the movie wasn't strong enough to support it. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Literally a car crash of a film, pitifull Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Elias Savada Film Threat It's not brilliant filmmaking, but Hard Shoulders does have its imaginative moments of character-driven craziness... Rated: 3/5 Jun 6, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis On a weekend trip to get away from their busy lives, Carl (Wil Johnson) and his family spend the night in an old roadside diner. They are captured by vagrants during the night and Carl must come up with an escape plan before they disappear.
      Director
      Nicholas David Lean
      Screenwriter
      Nicholas David Lean
      Production Co
      Ocean Film Studio
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 26m