| A Dark Place | |
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| Film poster | |
| Directed by | Simon Fellows |
| Written by | Brendan Higgins |
| Produced by | Mark Williams Tai Duncan Gareth Ellis-Unwin Leon Clarance |
| Starring | Andrew Scott Bronagh Waugh Denise Gough |
| Cinematography | Marcel Zyskind |
| Edited by | Chris Dickens David Arshadi |
| Music by | John Hardy Music |
| Distributed by | Shout! Studios |
Release date |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Countries | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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.
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.
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]