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Movie Info

When their teenaged daughter goes missing, a couple and an investigator search for her while keeping their own secrets and stories hidden.

Rating:

PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|Thematic Elements|Some Sexuality)
Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Sue Brooks
Producer:

Lizzette Atkins, Sue Taylor, Alison Tilson
Writer:

Sue Brooks
Release Date (Streaming):

Nov 14, 2017
Runtime:

1h 40m

Cast & Crew

Radha Mitchell
Denise

Richard Roxburgh
Dan

Odessa Young
Grace

Terry Norris
Tom Norris

Julia Blake
Nell Norris

Myles Pollard
Bruce

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Critic Reviews for Looking for Grace

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (9)

The characters depicted are flawed in all sorts of ways, but Brooks's evident sympathy for all of them shines through and the result is an offbeat road movie filled with surprises and revelations.

February 4, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

David Stratton
The Australian
It is really only when we're with Grace, and when the things that happen are happening to her, that we find any of the grace that Brooks is looking for.

February 4, 2016 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Jessica Kiang
The Playlist
Brooks generally is so bewitched by her characters' opacity that they remain frustratingly remote, even in the rare moments when they open up, diminishing the sorrow of the final-act tragedy.

February 4, 2016 | Full Review…

David Rooney
Hollywood Reporter
Even as its tone circles back to aching naturalism, there's something tenuous about the pic's tender resolution -- not to mention a teasing sense that more interesting untold stories might lie on the untold fringes.

February 4, 2016 | Full Review…

Guy Lodge
Variety
[Brooks] just wants you to feel for these people. And you do.

February 4, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
With its painterly eye for the parched saltpans and wheat fields bisected by snaking roads, the film has a lonely, elegiac beauty. The unexpected comedy can give way in an instant to something darker, but it's never mean-spirited.

February 4, 2016 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald
Brooks' screenplay is wryly funny about human behaviour, keenly observing the awkward ways anxious people rub up against each other.

September 26, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Nick Dent
Time Out Sydney
The main disappointment of Looking for Grace is the finale, which replaces the Altmanesque ensemble style with something reminiscent of Kislowski's last works.

September 26, 2017 | Full Review…

Diana Dabrowska
Cinema Scope
The actors are all strong, with Mitchell and Roxburgh (a long way from TV's Rake) putting in fine performances, and a breakthrough turn from Young, whose elusive Grace holds this subtle saga together.

February 4, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/5

David 'Mad Dog' Bradley
Rip It Up
A tender and bittersweet drama about the vagaries of life and the consequences of our actions.

February 4, 2016 | Full Review…

Jo-Anne Titmarsh
HeyUGuys
Told in a fractured, non-linear style, with overlapping narratives retelling the story from different perspectives, the parts can be tantilising but the whole doesn't come together the way it should, the payoff being more of a whimper than a bang.

January 29, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Jim Schembri
3AW
What sometimes shapes as promising about a bitsy tale of an outback search for a missing teen is never quite delivered upon here.

January 28, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)