All the Wilderness | |
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Directed by | Michael Johnson |
Written by | Michael Johnson |
Produced by | Jonathan Schwartz Andrea Sperling |
Starring | Kodi Smit-McPhee Isabelle Fuhrman Danny DeVito Virginia Madsen Evan Ross |
Cinematography | Adam Newport-Berra |
Edited by | John-Michael Powell |
Music by | Jónsi & Alex |
Production companies | Super Crispy Entertainment Kamp Grizzly |
Distributed by | Screen Media Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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James recently lost his father and is having trouble coping. He also seems obsessed with the death of people and animals. Because of this and other psychological problems, his mother sends him to Dr. Pembry; James does not want to go. He ends up making friends with street musician Harmon and spending his nights on the city streets.
Filming took place in Portland, Oregon. [1]
The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2014. [2] On November 4, 2014, Screen Media Films acquired distribution rights to the film. [3] The film was released in the United States on February 20, 2015. [4]
All the Wilderness received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 60% approval rating, with a rating average of 5.88/10 based on 25 reviews. [5] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100, the film has a score of 54 based on 11 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [6]
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