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Disappearances

Disappearances (2006)

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57

Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 6

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41

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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 27,213

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Movie Info

Longtime actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson stars as a whiskey-smuggling schemer desperate to preserve his endangered cattle herd in director Jay Craven's adaptation of Howard Frank Mosher's best-selling novel. The year is 1932; Prohibition is still in place, and smuggling whiskey has long been a profitable tradition in the Bonhomme family. When the coming winter threatens to decimate Quebec Bill Bonhomme's (Kristofferson) cattle heard and render his family destitute, the desperate dreamer and

PG-13,

Drama, Action & Adventure

Jul 3, 2007

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All Critics (22) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (10) | DVD (2)

A marvelous, subtly crafted elegy to a bygone era that balances its scenes of violence and gunplay with laconic humor.

June 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Magic realism is a tricky thing to pull off in a movie, and Disappearances, the third of Mr. Craven's films based on Mr. Mosher's novels, only occasionally succeeds.

May 14, 2007
New York Times
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The beautifully photographed Disappearances is solidly old-fashioned entertainment.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post
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The film is lovely to look at, but makes not a lick of sense.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
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If you're one of those people (like this reviewer) who can watch Kris Kristofferson do just about anything, you won't insist on the references being that solid.

May 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Newsday
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Alas, the story descends into mystical mumbo jumbo.

May 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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It's an ambitious work and shouldn't be too readily dismissed for its semi-successful foray into spirit-land. There is much else to enjoy and a wonderful terrain to discover.

May 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

There's a special Boy Scout charm to it all that I was enchanted with.

June 8, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
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The movie has a literary quality, and not just because everyone's always quoting Shakespeare.

June 7, 2007 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Labored, a bit of backwoods magical realism that wants to soar but never takes off.

June 6, 2007 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion
One Guy's Opinion

Craven never quite manages to make it all seem a smoothly integrated piece.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Craven layers the film's central narrative concerns with mounds of metaphorical gunk, most of which proves more ponderous than entrancing.

May 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

The story might sound fine on paper, but it didn't quite work out that well when filmed.

April 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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Audience Reviews for Disappearances

Honestly, I only rented Disappearances because there were a bunch of old people on the DVD cover and the concept of a Western filled with senior citizens intrigued me. The film didn't really deliver on that, sadly, and what could have been Actual Country for Old Men instead was made into a generic spaghetti flick with a dash of magical realism for flair.

The best part of Disappearances by far is the teleporting aunt, because hell, it's a teleporting old woman who spouts off Shakespeare and shoots people. You can't miss the potential in that. Also, the film looks great; even though it was shot on the cheap (budgeted at 1.7 million dollars), the director does an admirable job using natural scenery to create atmosphere. Unfortunately, that's pretty much where the unique parts of Disappearances come to a halt. The plot is some hoary nonsense about smuggling whiskey that gets completely dropped in the last twenty minutes of the movie to make way for shit randomly disappearing and some ridiculous subplot about a curse. I guess these seemed like neat elements to include in a Western, but they just didn't fit here.

The kid gave probably one of the worst child performances I've ever seen. Every line he delivered took me straight out of the movie, which wasn't that hard in the first place because it's not particularly gripping. They should have just put teleporting lady in his place and the movie would have been ten times better. The rest of the acting isn't bad; I guess Kris Kristofferson is important or something, which is why he ends up doing movies like this, right?
January 28, 2008
ceWEBrity

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I've stated in the past that you have to kiss a lot of frogs when you venture into the realm of independent films. With that said, I must admit that we've had a good run of late and seen some truly outstanding movies. That run came to a screeching halt with this flick and I take full responsibility for having chosen this dog. One has to imagine that it was very well received in whatever art house it played in, but went over with a thud in our house. The two star rating is for the cinematography, set design and with the exception of one particular character and his henchmen, for the costuming.
July 21, 2007
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