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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Freestyle Digital Media
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Freestyle Digital Media
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Living in a small town and amongst a house full of crystal meth abusers, seventeen year-old Abe wrestles to beat an addiction to meth and struggles to protect himself and his young niece from an abusive Uncle Bump. When Sonny returns home from prison seeking redemption from his son, Abe, the two must navigate the treacherous waters creat...

Directed By: David Pomes

Written By: David Pomes

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Freestyle Digital Media
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Freestyle Digital Media
  • 1 h 33 m

Cook County

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
44
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Summary Living in a small town and amongst a house full of crystal meth abusers, seventeen year-old Abe wrestles to beat an addiction to meth and struggles to protect himself and his young niece from an abusive Uncle Bump. When Sonny returns home from prison seeking redemption from his son, Abe, the two must navigate the treacherous waters creat...

Directed By: David Pomes

Written By: David Pomes

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
44
22% Positive
2 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
22% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
44
22% Positive
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56% Mixed
5 Reviews
22% Negative
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70
Dec 13, 2011
Its raw performances and dirty-realist immersion in a harsh environment keep Cook County engrossing.
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70
Nov 7, 2011
Despite a few continuity problems, this rough-edged, low-budget drama impresses with spot-on performances, perfect-pitch dialogue and an overall sense that something bad might happen at any moment, unless something worse happens first.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 15, 2011
What we need is for the writer and director, David Pomes, to wallow less in aimless dialogue and lowlife sordidness. What we need is a point.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 14, 2011
There's nothing slick or entertaining about the crumbling existence of Pomes' unsalvageable antiheroes.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 13, 2011
Pomes squeezes in a few well-observed details among the recycled white-trash clichés, but any AMC viewer who's tuned into the lead-in for Mount's TV Western - Breaking Bad - expects far, far more from his or her meth-fueled entertainment.
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38
Dec 13, 2011
Unlike AMC's Breaking Bad, meth here doesn't reflect current, perilous economic realties; rather, it's just a low-rent drug used by degenerates whose lives say nothing about anything.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
12
Dec 16, 2011
Depravity and addiction can be dramatic and fascinating, or they can be as they are in this week's indie filthathon Cook County.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Greenwood Films, Red Noses Productions
Release Date Dec 16, 2011
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Dallas International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Nashville Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sidewalk Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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