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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Devolver Digital Films
  • 1 h 11 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Devolver Digital Films
  • 1 h 11 m

Summary Thrown out of her New York City apartment, Natalia, a 25-year-old hot mess, relies on the kindness of friends and strangers. Seemingly unaware of the havoc she wreaks, she skips from one place to another, including her best friend's, where she crashes a holiday meal and seduces the best friend's socially inept brother. Natalia ends up st...

Directed By: Nathan Silver

Written By: Kia Davis, Cody Stokes, Nathan Silver

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Devolver Digital Films
  • 1 h 11 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Devolver Digital Films
  • 1 h 11 m

Soft in the Head

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
64
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Summary Thrown out of her New York City apartment, Natalia, a 25-year-old hot mess, relies on the kindness of friends and strangers. Seemingly unaware of the havoc she wreaks, she skips from one place to another, including her best friend's, where she crashes a holiday meal and seduces the best friend's socially inept brother. Natalia ends up st...

Directed By: Nathan Silver

Written By: Kia Davis, Cody Stokes, Nathan Silver

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
64
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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100
Apr 16, 2014
Surprising, challenging, and never less than thrilling.
By Calum Marsh FULL REVIEW
88
Apr 17, 2014
Nathan Silver captures the young-adult experience, particularly the agony of first sexual pangs, in films that deftly mix beguilement and repulsion.
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70
Apr 17, 2014
Etxeberria is a good match for the film's Cassavetes-inspired character study. She's no Gena Rowlands, but this woman is clearly under the influence of something that might destroy more lives than hers.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 17, 2014
From a dramatic standpoint, the movie can be unconvincing... From a formal standpoint, though, the movie impresses, maintaining a sense of anxiety through tight shots and a sound design that favors overlapping voices and constant clatter.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
25
Apr 17, 2014
Carl Kranz, as a possibly autistic boy enamored of Natalia, offers his scenes some heart. But Soft in the Head is drab, ramshackle stuff — up in everyone’s face, and finding very little there.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Konec Films
Release Date Apr 18, 2014
Duration 1 h 11 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://facebook.com/softinthead
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Awards

Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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