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  • 2015
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2015
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary Ten year-old Austen Kittredge is sent by his father to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he has wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It’s 1956 and Austen experiences Kingdom County as a place full of eccentric people, including his stubborn grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years...

Directed By: Jay Craven

Written By: Sascha Stanton Craven, Howard Frank Mosher, Grace Statwick, Jay Craven

  • 2015
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2015
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 48 m

Northern Borders

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Summary Ten year-old Austen Kittredge is sent by his father to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he has wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It’s 1956 and Austen experiences Kingdom County as a place full of eccentric people, including his stubborn grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years...

Directed By: Jay Craven

Written By: Sascha Stanton Craven, Howard Frank Mosher, Grace Statwick, Jay Craven

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Apr 9, 2015
When the two veteran actors team up in Vermont writer-director Jay Craven’s wry, uneven Northern Borders, adapted from Howard Frank Mosher’s novel, they mesh so well they almost hold the rest of the movie together. But their nuanced performances underscore the weakness of the rest of the cast, and Craven’s erratic tonal shifts from the whimsical to the sentimental trip up the episodic plot.
By Peter Keough FULL REVIEW
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Jan 15, 2015
It all adds up to somewhat less than the sum of its parts, but it's made palatable by the well-evoked rural atmosphere and the typically expert performances by the two leads.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 15, 2015
Mr. Dern is fine in his crotchety-old-man mode, but the rest of the acting is labored, and the story is an unfocused mishmash.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 13, 2015
It's easy to get lost in the natural beauty of Vermont, and Mosher (who worked on the film with several students as part of a Marlboro College program) clearly takes joy in doing so. The liveliest counterpart to that striking landscape isn't Dern, but rather Jessica Hecht as his wayward daughter, who hits all the grace notes the rest of the film tends to miss.
By Michael Nordine FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Kingdom County Productions
Release Date Jan 16, 2015
Duration 1 h 48 m
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Website https://northernbordersfilm.blogspot.com/
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