Metacritic Film

Brigham City

Starring Richard Dutcher, Wilford Brimley, Matthew A. Brown, Carrie Morgan, Jamie Taylor, Frank Gerrish, and John Enos

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence and thematic material

Excel Entertainment
Suspense/Thriller
119 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters April 13, 2001

What happens when a perfect small Mormon town is rocked with the discovery of a dead body? Brigham City is a thrilling murder mystery which shows that no place on earth is really safe from the world. (Zion Films)

WRITTEN BY
Richard Dutcher

DIRECTED BY
Richard Dutcher

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

62 / 100

Critic Reviews

100 Mr. Showbiz
Moviegoers of any (or no) religious persuasion can share in the simple satisfaction of his tense, well-spun murder mystery.
75 Chicago Tribune
Reminiscent of classic old Westerns.
70 Variety
The happiest marriage yet of the disparate propagandistic and narrative influences inherent in the subgenre of "religious" cinema.
70 The New York Times
Brigham City, like "God's Army," may proselytize for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but Brigham City is also an example of concise, skillful filmmaking.
60 TV Guide
A mystery that's filled with genuine sorrow and capped off with a denouement that may take even seasoned mystery buffs by surprise.
50 Christian Science Monitor
Few movies have sought this particular blend of detective-story melodrama and religious sensitivity.
50 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A good-faith effort, if not completely successful.
50 New York Post
Tries, with much less success, to do what "Witness" did in exploring an Amish town.

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