| North Starr | |
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| Directed by | Matthew Stanton |
| Written by | Matthew Stanton |
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| Starring | Jerome Hawkins Matthew Stanton Chris Sullivan Isaac Lamb Zach Johnson Wayne Campbell |
| Cinematography | Peter Levermann |
| Edited by | Peter Levermann |
| Music by | J.B. Reynolds |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
North Starr is a 2008 film directed by Matthew Stanton.
It was scheduled to compete in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. [1]
A young African American man living in Houston witnesses his best friend's brutal murder, then flees to the small, racially intolerant, backwater town of Trublin.
Justin Chang of Variety described the movie as "a messy Texas stew of racial tension, personal liberation and murder-in-retrospect detective story." He praised the likable characters but criticized the "self-indulgent" first-time director's work. [2] James Greenberg of The Hollywood Reporter called it "long on passion and somewhat lacking in execution," stressing the lack of experience on the part of the producer-director-writer-actor Matthew Stanton. [3]
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