Laggies

Laggies (2014)

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Drama - 15 October 2013

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Director : Lynn Shelton
Writers : Andrea Seigel
Stars : Chloë Grace Moretz, Keira Knightley, Tiya Sircar, Sam Rockwell

A woman stuck in permanent adolescence lies to her fiancé about going on a retreat and spends the time hanging out with friends instead.

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A Single Shot

A Single Shot (2013)

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R - 116 min - Crime, Drama, Thriller - 25 April 2013
Big Blue Sky Rating : 5.9/10

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Director : David M. Rosenthal
Writers : Matthew F. Jones
Stars : Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Wright, Kelly Reilly, Jason Isaacs

The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

A serious and dark movie

This is a serious movie for serious viewers. Sam Rockwell gives a convincing performance as John Moon, a West Virginia cracker who stumbles into bad luck from the opening seen. All of the characters bring to life what it's probably like to live in a rural, poor area in flyover country. The accents of the characters are often thick, which can make it difficult to understand some of the dialog, but the plot nonetheless comes through clearly. Rockwell's character progresses from being a dumb cracker to someone you care about, as the tension builds towards a final resolution of his accidental and potentially deadly predicament. The acting and direction are first rate. The cinematography fits the story; the musical score does likewise. The story is dark, in a Jack London sort of way. You won't be inspired, but you might be brought closer in touch with the human condition.

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Laggies

Laggies (2014)

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Drama - 15 October 2013

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Director : Lynn Shelton
Writers : Andrea Seigel
Stars : Chloë Grace Moretz, Keira Knightley, Tiya Sircar, Sam Rockwell

A woman stuck in permanent adolescence lies to her fiancé about going on a retreat and spends the time hanging out with friends instead.

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A Single Shot

A Single Shot (2013)

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R - 116 min - Crime, Drama, Thriller - 25 April 2013
Big Blue Sky Rating : 5.9/10

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Director : David M. Rosenthal
Writers : Matthew F. Jones
Stars : Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Wright, Kelly Reilly, Jason Isaacs

The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

Single shot

Which is actually more than enough in this case. I did not read the source material to this, but I did have the pleasure of watching this at the Berlin Internationl Festival. Sam Rockwell himself would have attended, but due to the storm having a party in America, he couldn't make the flight. While that bad, because it'd been awesome to see him up and close, it was also a relief, because he's just larger than life (one of the greatest actors of his generation is more than an apt description of him).

He does prove it in this movie too, which is much darker than I had expected. But he has a lot of help coming from the rest of the cast (great people involved here) and the script of course. As mentioned, I couldn't tell you the differences between the movie and the book. But the director did a great job here and I can only recommend this (not only because of the powerhouse performance by Sam)

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