Lake City (film)

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Lake City
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Directed by Perry Moore
Hunter Hill
Written byPerry Moore
Hunter Hill
Produced byDonna Bascom
Mike Ryan
Allison Sarofim
Starring Sissy Spacek
Troy Garity
Keith Carradine
Rebecca Romijn
Dave Matthews
Drea de Matteo
CinematographyRobert Gantz
Edited byJeffrey Wolf
Music by Aaron Zigman
Distributed by Screen Media Films
Release date
  • November 21, 2008 (2008-11-21)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office US$12,686 (U.S.) [1]

Lake City is a 2008 American drama film directed by Perry Moore and Hunter Hill and starring Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and Dave Matthews.

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Plot

A mother reunites with her son after many years, who had left home as a result of a searing family tragedy.

Cast

Production

Lake City was shot in Virginia on a $4 million budget.

Release

Lake City had its world premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival on April 25, 2008, [2] and was released in a single theater on November 21, 2008. [1]

Following the release, Screen Media Films acquired the rights to release the film [3] on DVD.

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 12% based on reviews from 26 critics, with an average rating of 3.6/10. The site's critics consensus states: "Lake City fails to make use of its accomplished cast, with the story unraveling amid the competing visions of its dual directors". [4] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 29 out of a 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [5]

Bill White of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote: "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". [6]

Josh Rosenblatt of The Austin Chronicle said "The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is [Sissy] Spacek". [7]

Stephen Holden reviewing for The New York Times had criticized the lead actress, writing "When Sissy Spacek speaks her cliched lines in the mediocre screenplay of [the film], her delivery lends them a resonance that is not in the written words". [8]

According to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle "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". [9]

Robert Koehler of The Christian Science Monitor wrote "The astonishingly inept finish could serve as a primer in screenwriting classes on how not to wind up a family drama". [10]

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly said that "The story is as impersonal as it is labored", [11] while Michelle Orange of The Village Voice wrote "Add[ing] to the general torpidity and twangy tropes of this Southern family drama is the discomfort of watching a natural actor force it". [12]

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  2. ↑ Farber, Stephen (April 29, 2008). "Lake City". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  3. ↑ Goldstein, Gregg (July 8, 2008). "Screen Media heads to 'Lake City'". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Lake City (2008)". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Lake City (2008)". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  6. ↑ White, Bill (December 11, 2008). "'Lake City' starts strong, then ends in senselessness" . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  7. ↑ Rosenblatt, Josh (December 5, 2008). "Lake City". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  8. ↑ Holden, Stephen (November 20, 2008). "Suds, Southern Scenery and Fistfuls of Weaponry". The New York Times . The New York Times Company . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  9. ↑ LaSalle, Mick (February 10, 2012). "Movie review: 'Lake City'". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  10. ↑ Koehler, Robert (November 22, 2008). "Review: 'Lake City'". The Christian Science Monitor . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  11. ↑ Schwarzbaum, Lisa (November 19, 2008). "Lake City". Entertainment Weekly .
  12. ↑ Orange, Michelle (November 19, 2008). "Lake City Flooded With Twangy Tropes and Torpidity". The Village Voice . Retrieved July 30, 2021.
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