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Lake City

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Lake City reviews
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2.5 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 12 critic reviews
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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)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

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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.

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58

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White

Garity, son of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, gives the kind of performance rarely seen in today's movies.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

A respectable and fairly decent movie.

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50

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.

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42

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The story is as impersonal as it is labored.

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42

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.

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30

Austin Chronicle Josh Rosenblatt

The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek.

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30

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.

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25

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.

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20

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?

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20

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.

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20

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.

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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.

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