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A gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the industries that created them - onetime boom-towns now haunted by the twilight of the American promise.

Unrated, 1 hr. 16 min.

Documentary

Directed By: Lee Anne Schmitt

In Theaters: Sep 22, 2008 Wide

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Lee Anne Schmitt's simultaneously haunting and tiresome documentary is like a New Age western with its fond look backward and harsh criticism of the present.

July 23, 2009 Comment

Eric Monder

Hollywood Reporter

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The companies in Lee Anne Schmitt's elegy for California boom towns gone bust run the gamut from farming to logging to mining, but after a while, the towns themselves take on the same ghostly countenance.

July 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Scott Foundas

Village Voice

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A provocative, non-preachy, vital and illuminating documentary with quietly powerful and haunting images.

July 27, 2009 Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru

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Avi Offer

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A brilliant, haunting and informative expose' not to be missed and not to be forgotten at awards season!

July 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Sly Fox

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Kam Williams

Sly Fox

[Director] Schmitt wisely allows the images to speak loudest -- a silent, sobering portrait of what happens after the well dries up.

July 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York

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S. James Snyder

Time Out New York

A social and aesthetic document of promise betrayed.

July 19, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Andrew Schenker

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