Things Behind the Sun

R

2001

1 hr. 57 min.

Drama

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100%

12 Reviews

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78%

1,000+ Ratings

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A rock journalist (Gabriel Mann) arranges a meeting between a traumatized singer (Kim Dickens) and the sleazy man who raped her.

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Allison Anders' bold drama features a fine performance from Kim Dickens as a recording artist suffering from addiction.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Kim Dickens plays a musician who was traumatized when she was raped as a young teen. Although suffering from serious emotional issues as a result, she has channeled some of her pain into her music. A music journalist sets up an interview with her ostensibly to cover this story, but really to try and resolve some issues of his own. He was personally and intimately tied to the rape. Not a spectacular film, but a vivid and compelling account of how violence can affect everyone involved. Dickens is superb in the lead role, but I had a fair amount of difficulty picturing her as the adult version of the actress cast as her teen self. Don Cheadle co-stars as her boyfriend/manager and Eric Stoltz is amazingly scummy as the film's heavy.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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This movie does not stand the test of time and its only 2001. I thought it was going to break out into a full on porn film. Acting is terrible with the exception of Don Cheadle. Dialogue is cliché. Long, boring, horrible

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Very good movie. Not suitable for ignorant optimists.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Well that was quite potent.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Frances H

Powerful, gripping film that dramatizes the lifelong effect of the aftermath of rape on its victims, who like other tortured souls of trauma, are survivors. The Accused dealt with getting justice for a rape victim. This film deals with how to live the life that is destroyed by it, and with it's superb performances by Kim Dickens and Don Cheadle, this film should have been an Oscar nominated one too.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/04/12

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Allison Anders

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Kim Dickens

Sherry

Gabriel Mann

Owen

Don Cheadle

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Eric Stoltz

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Elizabeth Peña

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John Leonard

New York Magazine/Vulture

Not the least astonishment in Things Behind the Sun is that much of it is remembered and imagined from the point of view of one of the rapists.

Feb 3, 2018

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Jonathan Foreman

New York Post

A film of remarkable honesty and courage.

Oct 12, 2001

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B. Ruby Rich

The Nation

Anders takes a hard look at questions of memory, guilt and recuperation.

Feb 25, 2020

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

After several disappointing films, Allison Anders has made a nother personal film that thematically is linked with her first (and best) feature, Gas Food Lodging.

Rated: B

Jul 26, 2011

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Synopsis

A rock journalist (Gabriel Mann) arranges a meeting between a traumatized singer (Kim Dickens) and the sleazy man who raped her.

Director: Allison Anders
Production Co: Echo Lake Entertainment
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 3, 2016

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