Magic Valley (film)

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Magic Valley
Directed byJaffe Zinn
Written byJaffe Zinn
Produced byHeather Rae
Starring
Edited byJaffe Zinn
Music byMads Heldtberg
Steve Damstra II
Production
companies
Prominent Pictures
Hazard Filmworks
Foxxtale Productions
Release dates
  • 31 October 2011 (2011-10-31)(Rome Film Festival)
  • 9 April 2013 (2013-04-09)(VOD)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Magic Valley is a 2011 American drama film directed by Jaffe Zinn, starring Scott Glenn, Kyle Gallner, Alison Elliott, Brad William Henke, Matthew Gray Gubler and Will Estes.

Contents

Cast

Release

The film premiered at the Rome Film Festival on 31 October 2011. [1] The film was released to VOD on 9 April 2013. [2]

Reception

Ronnie Scheib of Variety wrote that the film "puts its unique stamp on a ubiquitous dead-child theme". [3]

Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter praised the performances of Glenn and Henke while writing that the film is "not quite the sum of its parts" and "never builds into either a nail-biting investigation nor into a truly captivating mediation on life and death in America’s heartland" despite "many well-executed sequences". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Mintzer, Jordan (9 November 2011). "Magic Valley: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  2. Gallagher, Brian (22 March 2013). "Magic Valley Trailer [Exclusive]". MovieWeb . Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  3. Scheib, Ronnie (3 May 2011). "Magic Valley". Variety . Retrieved 21 October 2022.