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  • 2005
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2005
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary In this harrowing character study, Jacqueline McKenzie portrays Penny, a young woman lost in a dangerous abusive relationship. One day, she sets out with her son, supposedly to bring him to school, but instead their day becomes one extended adventure in the extreme netherworlds of sex, drugs, abuse, and criminal behavior. (Two Boots Pio...

Directed By: Mary Kuryla

Written By: Mary Kuryla

  • 2005
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2005
  • 1 h 27 m

Freak Weather

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary In this harrowing character study, Jacqueline McKenzie portrays Penny, a young woman lost in a dangerous abusive relationship. One day, she sets out with her son, supposedly to bring him to school, but instead their day becomes one extended adventure in the extreme netherworlds of sex, drugs, abuse, and criminal behavior. (Two Boots Pio...

Directed By: Mary Kuryla

Written By: Mary Kuryla

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Mixed
7 Reviews
13% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
45
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88% Mixed
7 Reviews
13% Negative
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McKenzie's mercurial performance is the centerpiece of this sad, surprisingly absorbing story.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
50
Director-screenwriter Kuryla displays some talent and an audaciously daring sensibility but ultimately fails to display the assured cinematic style that would make the unsavory proceedings more palatable.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
50
A promising feature-film debut.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
50
Though the whole of Freak Weather is too forced and fitful, significant stretches of the movie hold together. McKenzie gives a magnetic performance.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
50
Kuryla has her prole banter down, and moments like McKenzie's desperate dance on her jalopy hood when Turturro locks her out move beyond literary sting into kinetic and sympathetic gutter picaresque.
By Laura Sinagra FULL REVIEW
40
Fiction writer and debuting helmer Mary Kuryla is clearly after a Big Statement on abuse and strength of character, but falls short by creating a self-destructive monster in lieu of a sympathetic protagonist.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
38
Mostly, Freak Weather is just pathetic.
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Production Company Hate Kills Man (HKM)
Release Date Feb 2, 2005
Duration 1 h 27 m
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Awards

Rotterdam International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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