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Directed by | Jessica Goldberg |
Screenplay by | Jessica Goldberg |
Based on | Refuge by Jessica Goldberg |
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Cinematography | Doug Emmett |
Edited by | Zach Wolf |
Music by | The Milk Carton Kids |
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Distributed by | Strand Releasing |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Refuge is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Jessica Goldberg, based on her play of the same name. It stars Krysten Ritter, Brian Geraghty, Logan Huffman, and Madeleine Martin.
After her parents disappear, Amy drops out of college to care for her two younger siblings. Sam, a man with whom Amy has had a one-night stand, requests to rent space at Amy's house, and a romance develops between the two.
Filming took place in Southampton, New York, in February 2011 and took about a month. [1]
Refuge premiered at the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival. [2]
As of June 2020 [update] , the film holds a 33% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, based on nine reviews with an average score of 5.62/10. [3] Metacritic rated it 34/100 based on six reviews. [4] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "sincere but unconvincing drama" that suffers in the adaptation to film. [5] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called it "a fragmentary, unconvincing effort to trace the emergence of a familial bond". [6] Sheri Linden of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Explained rather than inhabited, the characters are half-formed, and their low-grade depression infects the underpowered storytelling." [7]
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