The Driftless Area

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The Driftless Area

R

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

04/23/2015

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

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Mark Jackson

Epoch Times

06/11/2016

2/5

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.

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Rodrigo Perez

The Playlist

04/19/2015

C-

"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.

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steve d

12/07/2022

The whole thing came off very cheap.

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isla s

09/04/2022

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.

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12/09/2020

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.

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05/04/2020

Good film good story nice refreshing film

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farah r

@Farah 02/26/2019

Boring and forgettable.

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11/02/2018

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)

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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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