Down Terrace
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  • Starring: Julia Deakin, Robert Hill, Robin Hill
  • Summary: Father and son Bill and Karl have just been released from jail free and clear, but all is not well at Down Terrace. Patriarchs of a small crime family, their business is plagued with infighting. Karl has had more than he can take of his old man's philosophizing and preaching, and Bill thinks Karl's dedication to the family is seriously compromised when he takes up with an estranged girlfriend who claims to be carrying his baby. To make matters worse, there’s an unidentified informant in their midst that could send them all to prison for a very long time, and none of their associates can be trusted.(Magnolia Pictures)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
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  1. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Stan Hall
    Oct 28, 2010
    91
    Down Terrace is so intimate and hilariously offhanded (a hit man shows up for a job pushing his 3-year-old in a stroller) that it is all the more shocking when murderous violence finally erupts about halfway through.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    Down Terrace is long on talk but generates its own internal rhythms and pace that makes it feel bracing and vibrantly alive.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    80
    This muted mobster story reminds us that the ties that bind can also gag you, garrote you and slowly deaden your soul.
  4. Empire
    Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    60
    The father and son chemistry give this blackly-comic slice of social realism a dose of Ealing-lite wit.

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  1. CharlotteP
    7
    Downbeat, laced with mordant wit and dark as can be: a tale of small criminals in a confined environment, family fortunes, and escalating paranoia between father, mother and son. A slow-growing film which is a million miles away from gormless Guy Richie's Brit-trash flicks; the naturalistic acting and dialogue lend it an almost documentary feel and flashes of often absurd humour lift the grimness. It's one of those unusual films that you may have to watch all the way through before you can make a judgment. Watch it all the way through: it's worth it.… Expand

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