Down to the Dirt (2008)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 2
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Joel Thomas Hyne's acclaimed novel about a Newfoundland drug addict's attempts to make sense of his own warped existence serves as the foundation for this poetic yet visceral addiction drama that stars the author himself as the damaged protagonist. Keith Kavanagh (Hyne) is a collection of contradictions; he's a coward, a bully, and a clown all at once, and his life is a mess of complicated relationships. Though he longs to start life anew somewhere else, he lacks the motivation to put any
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Cast
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Joel Thomas Hynes
Keith Kavanagh -
Mylène Savoie
Natasha Healy -
Robert Joy
Robert Kavanagh -
Hugh Dillon
Renny -
Sherry White
Sally Anne -
Jody Richardson
Francey O'Dea -
Mary Lewis
Nora Healy -
Phil Churchill
Andy O'Toole -
Paula Morgan
Mavis Kavanaugh -
Steve Cochrane
Mitch
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We know how his story will unfold.
Top CriticBy the time the movie finally gets round to the narrator enumerating the life lessons learned, viewers may already be sleeping it off.
The movie, directed by first-timer Simms, gets really interesting -- in a squalid, darkly humorous, Atlantic Canada Gothic kinda way.
Many viewers will find time spent with this hapless screw-up two hours too many, but the pic does at least partly capture the source material's rambunctious gallows humor.
Hynes is really effective as Keith, at ease with the rude, raw material that's drawn from his own past, and he manages to be charismatic even at his most down and dirty.
...an uncommonly disagreeable effort that's destined to turn off most mentally-stable viewers.
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I have'nt read the book but the film is OK...It's immature in development and chock full of cliches but this young man does a decent job of portraying his main character's angst and eventual enlightenment. A very good first project...