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Lake City (2008)

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Reviews Counted:26

Fresh:3

Rotten:23

Average Rating:3.6/10

Consensus: Lake City fails to make use of its accomplished cast, with the story unraveling amid the competing visions of its dual directors.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] R for language and some violence.

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: In this well-cast drama, the opinion of Thomas Wolfe--you can't go home again--is called into question. Troy Garity (SUNSHINE) stars as a grown man who decides to return to the place he grew up in... In this well-cast drama, the opinion of Thomas Wolfe--you can't go home again--is called into question. Troy Garity (SUNSHINE) stars as a grown man who decides to return to the place he grew up in after he finds himself in a bad situation with a drug dealer. Past wounds still haunt his relationship with his mother (Oscar winner Sissy Spacek), but the two grow closer even as danger threatens them. LAKE CITY also features the talents of Rebecca Romijn, Dave Matthews, Keith Carradine, Colin Ford, and Drea De Matteo. [More]

Starring: Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity, Rebecca Romijn, Dave Matthews

Starring: Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity, Rebecca Romijn, Dave Matthews, Keith Carradine, Colin Ford, Barry Corbin, Drea de Matteo

Director: Hunter Hill, Perry Moore

Director: Hunter Hill, Perry Moore
Screenwriter: Hunter Hill, Perry Moore
Producer: Allison Sarofim, Donna L. Bascom, Mike S. Ryan
Composer: Aaron Zigman
Studio: Screen Media

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Mar 3, 2009

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  • Subtitles - English (SDH), Spanish
 
 
 
 

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...ultimately establishes itself as a compelling little drama...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
03/06/09
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

It is phony, manipulative films like this that make people line up for Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
02/22/09
Paul Brenner
Paul Brenner
Filmcritic.com

When Hill and Moore leave story and characters behind to veer off into suspenseless chases through cornfields, one wonders if the era of earnest American drama may be coming to a close.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
12/12/08
Bill White
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A convoluted, discombobulated take on a small-town drama, Lake City shifts gears so often it never gets out of the driveway.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
12/05/08
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
Los Angeles Times
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With all the high-profile movies blasting into theaters at this time of year, Lake City will probably get lost in the shuffle. That won't be a tragedy.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
12/05/08
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
12/04/08
Josh Rosenblatt
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle

Mother and son have an uneasy bond that should be familiar to anyone who has ever seen a movie in which a child's room has been preserved and locked tight.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
11/26/08
Michelle Orange
Michelle Orange
L.A. Weekly
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An interesting little film.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
11/24/08
Ben Lyons
Ben Lyons
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A movie that just didn’t really ring true.

Full Review Source: At the Movies | comment Comment
11/24/08
Ben Mankiewicz
Ben Mankiewicz
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The astonishingly inept finish could serve as a primer in screenwriting classes on how not to wind up a family drama.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
11/21/08
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Christian Science Monitor

One of those Deep Dark Secret movies, the dull indie Lake City combines a wholly uninteresting family mystery with a wholly unconvincing crime drama.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
11/21/08
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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Only natural spitfire Spacek, as the pickup-driving mom of the land, feels fresh.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
11/21/08
Joe Neumaier
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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An intermittently admirable but largely incongruous work that suggests not only divergent sensibilities on the part of the two neophyte filmmakers, but a certain indecisiveness regarding their core audience.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
11/21/08
Wade Major
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine

When Sissy Spacek speaks her cliched lines in the mediocre screenplay of Lake City, her delivery lends them a resonance that is not in the written words.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
11/21/08
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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"Lake City" is a throwaway film with a cast it doesn't deserve.

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11/21/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

The movie has an earnest tone, and a burnished golden glow that's pleasing to the eye, but the characters have no life beyond their immediate problems, and the actions the plot requires them to take to resolve them.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
11/20/08
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

All of these movies uneasily coexist under the umbrella title of Lake City, which is a shame because Sissy Spacek can be found wasting a genuinely affecting performance in this mess.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment Comment
11/20/08
Mark Peikert
Mark Peikert
New York Press

The real shame is the waste of Spacek. She's an American treasure who doesn't work nearly enough; to see this star make a rare appearance, only to wither among such emotional cheap shots, is the one thing in Lake City that will genuinely make you weep.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
11/20/08
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

The filmmakers rely excessively on a repeated dreamlike flashback and on foliage, fields and sunsets to remind us 'we are all part of a greater universe.'

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
11/20/08
Donald J. Levit
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

The story is as impersonal as it is labored.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
11/19/08
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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