The Wheel

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The Wheel

2021

1h 23m

Drama

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Albee and Walker, a young couple on the brink of divorce, rent a mountain getaway to save their fledgling marriage. Before long, their personal drama creates tension between their newly engaged AirBnB hosts -- Ben & Carly -- leaving us to wonder if either couples' relationships will survive the weekend.

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Beautifully filmed and brought to life by a quartet of fine performances, The Wheel spins a quietly moving story about love and relationships.

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Peter Debruge

Variety

07/24/2022

Pink, a veteran TV director who takes a rather self-important “a film by” credit on what feels like a first feature (it’s his fifth), shows almost no intuition for how to block or shoot a scene...

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

07/22/2022

For all its formulaic faults, “The Wheel” is unusually astute about the ways some couples avoid the hard truths about each other because they’re afraid of ripping their whole lives apart.

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

07/22/2022

3/4

The four main players are all excellent, with Amber Midthunder delivering particularly outstanding work that shows she is a young actor capable of great things.

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

08/22/2022

The Wheel thinly stretches the 'will they or won't they break up' dilemma for the movie's central married couple, until the movie's very last scene, which is the best part of the film. This relationship drama is mostly well-acted but very repetitive.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

07/29/2022

At the end, everybody has discovered something about themselves. But I couldn’t help thinking that disillusionment and forgiveness was respectively doled out to entirely the wrong people.

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

07/27/2022

An intimate indie drama about the hope and heartbreak of adult relationships that's painful but also hopeful.

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diane S

@RT11306624 04/01/2023

Great movie - lots of tension and psychological intensity - holds your attention from start to finish - great acting.

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Synopsis

Albee and Walker, a young couple on the brink of divorce, rent a mountain getaway to save their fledgling marriage. Before long, their personal drama creates tension between their newly engaged AirBnB hosts -- Ben & Carly -- leaving us to wonder if either couples' relationships will survive the weekend.

Director: Steve Pink
Producer: Josh Jason, Molly Gilula, Steve Pink, Trent Atkinson, Sean Crampton, Amber Midthunder, Taylor Gray
Screenwriter: Trent Atkinson
Production Co: Hurley/Pickle Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 23m