A Dark Place (also titled Steel Country)[1] is a 2019 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Simon Fellows and starring Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough.
| A Dark Place | |
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| Directed by | Simon Fellows |
| Written by | Brendan Higgins |
| Produced by | Mark Williams Tai Duncan Gareth Ellis-Unwin Leon Clarance |
| Starring | Andrew Scott Bronagh Waugh Denise Gough |
| Cinematography | Marcel Zyskind |
| Edited by | Chris Dickens David Arshadi |
| Music by | John Hardy Music |
| Distributed by | Shout! Studios |
Release date |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Countries | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Plot
editWhen a local boy goes missing, Donald Devlin (Andrew Scott), a small-town sanitation worker on the autism spectrum, dives headlong into the mystery in an attempt to solve it.
Cast
edit- Andrew Scott as Donald Devlin
- Bronagh Waugh as Donna Reutzel
- Denise Gough as Linda Connolly
- Michael Rose as Sheriff Benjamin Mooney
- Christa Bell Campbell as Wendy Connolly
- Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Betty Devlin
- Andrew Massett as Dr. Joel Pomorski
- Griff Furst as Max Himmler
- Jason Davis as Jerry Zeigler
- Kate Forbes as Patty Zeigler
- Cory Scott Allen as Randy Helsel
Reception
editThe film has 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]
Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars.[3] Ben Travis of Empire awarded the film three stars out of five.[1] Stephen Carty of Radio Times also awarded the film three stars out of five.[4]
Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable."[5] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Scott's strong, startling performance is the most effective element of Simon Fellows' offbeat crime thriller."[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c Travis, Ben (18 April 2019). "Steel Country Review". Empire. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ "A Dark Place". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ Henderson, Odie (12 April 2019). "A Dark Place". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ Carty, Stephen. "Steel Country". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ Harvey, Dennis (8 April 2019). "Film Review: 'A Dark Place'". Variety. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ^ Scheck, Frank (10 April 2019). "'A Dark Place': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 November 2020.