A Dark Place

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A Dark Place
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Directed by Simon Fellows
Written byBrendan Higgins
Produced by Mark Williams
Tai Duncan
Gareth Ellis-Unwin
Leon Clarance
Starring Andrew Scott
Bronagh Waugh
Denise Gough
CinematographyMarcel Zyskind
Edited by Chris Dickens
David Arshadi
Music byJohn Hardy Music
Distributed by Shout! Studios
Release date
  • April 19, 2019 (2019-04-19) [1]
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Dark Place (also titled Steel Country) [1] is a 2019 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Simon Fellows and starring Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough.

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Plot

When a local boy goes missing, Donald Devlin (Andrew Scott), a small-town sanitation worker on the autism spectrum, dives headlong into the mystery in an attempt to solve it.

Cast

Reception

The film has 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [2]

Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars. [3] Ben Travis of Empire awarded the film three stars out of five. [1] Stephen Carty of Radio Times also awarded the film three stars out of five. [4]

Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable." [5] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Scott's strong, startling performance is the most effective element of Simon Fellows' offbeat crime thriller." [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Travis, Ben (18 April 2019). "Steel Country Review". Empire . Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  2. "A Dark Place". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango . Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  3. Henderson, Odie (12 April 2019). "A Dark Place". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  4. Carty, Stephen. "Steel Country". Radio Times . Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  5. Harvey, Dennis (8 April 2019). "Film Review: 'A Dark Place'". Variety . Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  6. Scheck, Frank (10 April 2019). "'A Dark Place': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 8 November 2020.