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- 2015
- Unrated
- Film1 Sundance Channel
- 1 h 35 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- Film1 Sundance Channel
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Three young Native Americans—an adopted Christian girl, a rebellious father-to-be, and a promiscuous transsexual—strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation.
Directed By: Sydney Freeland
Written By: Sydney Freeland
- 2015
- Unrated
- Film1 Sundance Channel
- 1 h 35 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- Film1 Sundance Channel
- 1 h 35 m
Drunktown's Finest
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Summary Three young Native Americans—an adopted Christian girl, a rebellious father-to-be, and a promiscuous transsexual—strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation.
Directed By: Sydney Freeland
Written By: Sydney Freeland
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
55
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
75% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Freeland does a fine job, waiting for her characters to converge in a way that doesn't feel overly forced, though there is a bit of that "Crash" tidiness in how things fall together. Still, the film is moving and human.
Drunktown’s Finest shouldn’t be viewed simply as an anthropological curiosity, though, but as the promising debut of a gifted filmmaker who wants to show the beating and hurting hearts of the people behind the headlines.
While Freeland's plotting is graceful, there are occasional moments of stiffness in the dialogue itself, brief rough patches her largely neophyte cast can't fix in the delivery.
Unfortunately, each main character serves as an avatar emblematic of a societal symptom instead of a real person in whose shoes we can stand. As a result, their trajectories are didactic and predictable.
Drunktown's Finest shows a filmmaker struggling to find her voice. It's a whisper here, but we can hear it.
Drunktown’s Finest oscillates between servicing banal plot machinations and the beautiful, symbolic simplicity of the culture it’s representing.
Unfortunately, Drunktown’s Finest too often suffers from stilted performances and scripting.
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Production Company
Grey Hour Production Services,
Indion Entertainment Group,
Toy Gun Films
Release Date Feb 20, 2015
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Without balance, we cannot endure.
Awards
American Indian Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
L.A. Outfest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Nashville Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
