The Driftless Area

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The Driftless Area

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2015

1h 35m

Comedy

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

Romance

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When a man returns to his hometown after his parents die, he becomes involved in a dangerous situation with a woman and a violent criminal.

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Elise Nakhnikian

Slant Magazine

A self-consciously quirky, slightly otherworldly tale whose eagerness to win audiences over with whimsy only succeeds at keeping us at arm's length.

Apr 23, 2015

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Mark Jackson

Epoch Times

Glaciers didn't go through this area, so there's no drift (silt, clay, sand, gravel, and boulders). So the area is therefore driftless. That's very interesting. To geologists.

Rated: 2/5

Jun 11, 2016

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Rodrigo Perez

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"The Driftless Area" isn't so much bad as it is trivial and forgettable, but in a day and age of dwindling cinemagoers, and interest in adult storytelling fading from the big screen, its weary insignificance feels all the more criminal.

Rated: C-

Apr 19, 2015

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steve d

The whole thing came off very cheap.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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isla s

This film I didn't follow, plot wise and there was next to no tension or atmosphere. It felt like a long soap episode that never entirely got anywhere. I like Anton Yelchin and Zooey Deschanel but this is definitely not one of their better films. Dull and boring, I wouldn't recommend it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

A driftless area is a watchable film with original ideas and good performances but the film tries to do too much. Tries to be a supernatural ghost story, I love story, a revenge flick, even a heist movie. Unfortunately it doesn’t do any of them very well. The pacing is off and the film is boring in parts. It’s a novel attempt but the film could’ve been better.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/09/20

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Audience Member

Good film good story nice refreshing film

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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farah r

Boring and forgettable.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

One of those cases that the title really says it all by how it was monotonously balanced, enforcing the utter conceptual mystery of the occurring events as the only of the two interest points next to being picked up by the climax. (B- ) (Full review TBD)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Zachary Sluser

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Anton Yelchin

Pierre

Zooey Deschanel

Stella

John Hawkes

Shane

Alia Shawkat

Carrie

Frank Langella

Tim Geer

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Synopsis

When a man returns to his hometown after his parents die, he becomes involved in a dangerous situation with a woman and a violent criminal.

Director: Zachary Sluser
Producer: Aaron L. Gilbert, Keith Kjarval
Screenwriter: Zachary Sluser
Production Co: BRON Studios
Rating: R (Some Drug Use|Language|Violence)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 5, 2016
Runtime: 1h 35m

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