Take Me to the River

Released Mar 18, 2016

1 hr. 24 min.

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

LGBTQ+

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A gay teenager (Logan Miller) faces accusations of abusing his 9-year-old cousin (Ursula Parker) during a family reunion in Nebraska.

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This is a unique and bold dramatic work from the Taboo series

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/23/24

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Well, I honestly did not understand the connotation of all this chicken fighting until I read reviews and comments...Geez, I went back to watch the river scene and noticed Molly's actions on his shoulders. Somehow didn't focus on her during that scene the first time..... ..I would say filming a young girl doing this would be considered a form of child porn, movie or not...There was incest involved if you believed Ryder was Keith's father and Molly...A disturbed girl being abused by the father to get even with this sister...I don't think Molly is the child of Keith and Cindy because it would mean she gave her up to him and kept Ryder..It is all very confusing and strange and yes, very dark.......Overall, this movie is based on incest, more than Ryder being gay...I thought this poor kid was being abused by all of them..He was so weak....I felt bad for him the most.. Not a bad movie, but weird and disturbing....

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/26/23

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Very bad in all respects. Uncle has been raping his own daughters and we find he has raped his sister in the past. He takes out a gun to threaten his nephew so that his gay nephew will rape his daughters, too. This is a sick movie and glorifies pedophilia. That the mother and son walk right into every ploy of the uncle is unbelievable and the "lolita" quality of the 9 year old girl who has already menstruated and is having orgasms on her cousin's shoulders is beyond the pale. Do not watch this movie. It comes out of a sick mind.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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I thought that it had a great story. A boy who is accused of sexually using his 9 y/o cousin but isn't able to disprove it because he can't come out due to homophobia

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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This film doesn't even get close to stars, the writer/director (same person) should have been charged with Child Pornography ! Maybe, even the cast also. I want to know personally " what were you people thinking about ? " This film and its director is horrible, tasteless, sad, and pointless. If I HAD to rate, this film would be -5 Stars. Unfortunately I have to rate a 1/2 to post. This director is a CHILD ABUSER !

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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The more things change, the more things stay the same. That is supposed to be the message of this unique Sundance Film Festival winner, however any message the film intended to share was lost by it's sheer disturbing nature. Ryder (Logan Miller) is a Gay California teenager who is going with his parents to a family reunion in Kansas. Knowing that her rural family will never understand, Ryder's mother has kept that little detail from the rest of the family, much to Ryder's chagrin. Ryder rebels in his own way by wearing an outrageous outfit and keeping to himself at the family outing, only spending time with his young cousin, Molly (Ursula Parker) who wants to play in the barn. When Molly comes running back from the barn with an unusual bloodstain, Ryder earns the ire of the rest of his family and wants to tell them he's gay, but apparently being thought of as something else is even better than that. If this film displays one thing, it's that homophobia is alive and well, and that should have been more the focus of this film. While I think everyone pretty much suspected Ryder was gay, the whole situation with Molly made them think he was something else too and the focus was on that. The families reaction to it was what was even more disturbing as it ranged from what you'd expect to sheer ridiculousness. I honestly can't believe some of the things that happened in this film, as they were both disturbing and seemingly without much of a purpose. Logan Miller stars and now that I've seen him in a few other things, I can honestly say that he's the kind of actor who has to fit the role. He has this kind of whiny, emo boy personality that just doesn't fit with everything. In a film like this, if anything I'd expect him to be more outraged, emotional to the point of being over the top but he really wasn't, it was as if he didn't grasp what he was being accused of. Take Me To The River focused on a single event and just didn't let go, everything else became irrelevant. The film was disturbing, the acting was sub-par, and a lot of what happened just didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Matt Sobel

Director

Logan Miller

Ryder

Robin Weigert

Cindy

Josh Hamilton

Keith

Richard Schiff

Don

Ursula Parker

Molly

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Ibad Shah

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With its lyrical approach to a deliberate pace, the movie develops a hypnotic effect even when deceptively little happens.

Rated: A

Sep 13, 2017

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Matt Sobel transforms a nightmare he once had into an evocative, original drama.

May 26, 2016

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Scott Marks

San Diego Reader

Is it me, or is the big climactic reveal not really worth all the hubbub?

Rated: 1/5

Apr 21, 2016

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Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Cinema

An excellent piece of work imbued with a specific sense of place.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 5, 2021

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Take Me to the River doesn't quite hold water but I eagerly await seeing what Sobel does next.

Jan 7, 2021

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Nick Evan-Cook

One Room With A View

The dark and twisted Take Me To The River is an intriguing and enjoyable little drama - though very slight, and never entirely convincing in terms of its characters' motivations, behaviours or actions.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 19, 2019

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Synopsis

A gay teenager (Logan Miller) faces accusations of abusing his 9-year-old cousin (Ursula Parker) during a family reunion in Nebraska.

Director: Matt Sobel
Executive Producer: Hisami Kuroiwa, Nick Case
Screenwriter: Matt Sobel
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Explosion Film
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 18, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $25.8K

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