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  • Starring: Brenda Fricker, Janet McTeer, JJ Feild
  • Summary: An intimate, gripping look at well-meaning people who get hopelessly, dreadfully lost in their pursuit of happiness. In 1924, Sarah and Hamish travel from England deep in to the jungle to earn their fortune surveying an ivory trading post. Instead of an exotic retreat, the couple encounters an oppressively small community. Despite their best intentions, their presence in the jungle unleashes a downward spiral that ends in greed, murder and madness. (IFC Films) Expand
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 10
  2. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Imagine a sexually charged "Heart of Darkness" by way of Denmark's bare-bones Dogme 95 and you'll have an idea of what this dark, moody melodrama is like.
  2. Sweaty, filthy, miserable and well acted.
  3. The Intended is well-intended, but it is also the dreariest, most uninvolving movie I've seen this year.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. CharlesC.
    7
    Weird story, but acting performances are so mesmerizing one is apt to forgive the script and the slow pace. Not many peoples' cup of tea, yet still worjth the time and patience to stick it out. Expand
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