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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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A convoluted, discombobulated take on a small-town drama, Lake City shifts gears so often it never gets out of the driveway. Dec 5, 2008 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
A convoluted, discombobulated take on a small-town drama, Lake City shifts gears so often it never gets out of the driveway.
Sam Adams
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. Dec 5, 2008 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
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.
Mick LaSalle
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. Nov 26, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Michelle Orange
An interesting little film. Nov 24, 2008 | Full Review…
An interesting little film.
Ben Lyons
A movie that just didn't really ring true. Nov 24, 2008
A movie that just didn't really ring true.
Ben Mankiewicz
One of those Deep Dark Secret movies, the dull indie Lake City combines a wholly uninteresting family mystery with a wholly unconvincing crime drama. Nov 21, 2008 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
One of those Deep Dark Secret movies, the dull indie Lake City combines a wholly uninteresting family mystery with a wholly unconvincing crime drama.
Kyle Smith
...ultimately establishes itself as a compelling little drama... Mar 6, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
...ultimately establishes itself as a compelling little drama...
David Nusair
It is phony, manipulative films like this that make people line up for Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Feb 22, 2009 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
It is phony, manipulative films like this that make people line up for Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
Paul Brenner
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. Dec 12, 2008 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
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.
Bill White
The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek. Dec 4, 2008 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek.
Josh Rosenblatt
The astonishingly inept finish could serve as a primer in screenwriting classes on how not to wind up a family drama. Nov 21, 2008 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The astonishingly inept finish could serve as a primer in screenwriting classes on how not to wind up a family drama.
Robert Koehler
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. Nov 21, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Wade Major
Sissy and Troy are good but the screenplay is rather scattered not leaving them with much to work with although they do have one good emotional scene.
Super Reviewer
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. 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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