Lake City (2008)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 24
Lake City fails to make use of its accomplished cast, with the story unraveling amid the competing visions of its dual directors.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 12
Lake City fails to make use of its accomplished cast, with the story unraveling amid the competing visions of its dual directors.
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Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity, and music icon Dave Matthews star in this tale of an estranged mother and son who reluctantly come together in hopes of saving their home. Maggie (Spacek) and Billy (Garity) are a desperate mother and damaged son who went their separate ways following a long-ago tragedy. South African-born singer/songwriter Matthews portrays a drug dealer willing to harm anyone keeping him from recovering cocaine that was stolen from him by Billy's troubled wife. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Cast
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Sissy Spacek
Maggie -
Troy Garity
Billy -
Rebecca Romijn
Jennifer -
Dave Matthews
Red -
Keith Carradine
Roy -
Colin Ford
Clayton -
Drea de Matteo
Hope -
Allison Sarofim
Beth -
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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (25) | DVD (1)
A convoluted, discombobulated take on a small-town drama, Lake City shifts gears so often it never gets out of the driveway.
Top CriticWith 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.
An interesting little film.
A movie that just didn't really ring true.
One of those Deep Dark Secret movies, the dull indie Lake City combines a wholly uninteresting family mystery with a wholly unconvincing crime drama.
Only natural spitfire Spacek, as the pickup-driving mom of the land, feels fresh.
Lake City lacks the one thing that makes all edge of your seat experiences viable - a reason to care.
...ultimately establishes itself as a compelling little drama...
It is phony, manipulative films like this that make people line up for Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
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.
The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek.
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.
The astonishingly inept finish could serve as a primer in screenwriting classes on how not to wind up a family drama.
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.
"Lake City" is a throwaway film with a cast it doesn't deserve.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Lake City
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Lake City is a powerful film, well made, well cast and well scripted. The direction is remarkable and the acting is fabulous. Each actor comes across very natural and the characters are very believable....at many times, it is almost like watching a real life situation. The director's have dealt with the story in a very special manner, and still maintaining the fine balance between the feelings of love, anger, rage, guilt, and compassion. The mother and son relationship is the best that has ever been able to portray. It a must to see film. Nice.
4 stars
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