River of Grass (1994)
Release Date: Aug 4, 1995 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town.
Aug 4, 1995 Wide
Mar 18, 2003
Wellspring Media Inc.
Cast
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Larry Fessenden
Lee -
Dick Russell
Jimmy Ryder -
Lisa Bowman
Cozy -
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This minimalist yet revisionist indie feature (Reichardt's debut) is a highlight of the 1994 Sundance Film Fest.
There's an element of wit in Reichardt's minimalism here that isn't present in her later, more somber work.
Plenty of fun but not really that memorable
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Even working on a miniscule budget as she is with her first film, "River of Grass," one can see definite filmmaking promise in Kelly Reichardt that she would deliver on in her later films. As it is, there is a very cool soundtrack as she manages to capture south Florida in a unique way while beginning her specialty in following characters who achieve varying levels of success in trying to get where they are going. That might also explain the lackadaisical, yet deadpan, pacing for which I will overlook the short eternity the plot, what there is of it, takes to kick in.
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