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Lake City

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 12 critic reviews
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Based on 2 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Hunter Hill
Perry Moore
Directed by:
Hunter Hill
Perry Moore
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 21, 2008
DVD: March 3, 2009
Running Time: 92 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language and some violence
Starring Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity, Rebecca Romijn, David Matthews, Keith Carradine, Allison Sarofim, Colin Ford, and Drea De Matteo
When a young man gets into trouble with a local drug dealer, he hits the road running with a young companion and heads to the last place on earth he wants to go - his childhood home. (Screen Media Films)
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What The Critics Said
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The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber
The film is effective in its intimate moments as well as its violent set pieces, and it could attract audiences, primarily because of Spacek's superb performance.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Garity, son of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, gives the kind of performance rarely seen in today's movies.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Robert Koehler
The astonishingly inept finish could serve as a primer in screenwriting classes on how not to wind up a family drama.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The story is as impersonal as it is labored.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
All the performers are fine--even the miscast Romijn--but they're still too much like actors playing dress-up.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt
The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michelle Orange
Added to the general torpidity and twangy tropes of this Southern family drama is the discomfort of watching a natural actor (Garity) force it.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
One of those Deep Dark Secret movies, the dull indie Lake City combines a wholly uninteresting family mystery with a wholly unconvincing crime drama.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Only natural spitfire Spacek, as the pickup-driving mom of the land, feels fresh. There's even a mouthy kid Garity is "taking care of" - guess whose son he is?
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Feels like a movie whose story was slapped together during filming. Its three phases -- Southern pastorale, Sudsville and Kablooie -- don’t really connect.
Read Full Review >Variety Ronnie Scheib
Moore and Hill's script plunges Spacek in a mawkish stew of banality and improbability composed of bits and pieces of earlier roles.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 2.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jay H. gave it a4:
It took two directors to make this movie so boring?! Painfully slow moving, it lacks focus and and excitement. Even Sissy Spacek can't save this one.
