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Big Driver
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 18, 2014
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
56
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Big Driver is slimmer in content, as well as form, than “Misery,” but it is nonetheless gripping. The television adaptation, however, doesn’t adjust for the power of a graphic depiction of assault, rape and sodomy. And that violence, when juxtaposed with the jaunty, Cabot Cove tone, undercuts the movie’s message of payback and empowerment.
A few horror-story cliches seep in, but with Bello playing a character who is strikingly unglamorous and at times not even sympathetic, Big Driver should deliver for its audience.
Even cameos by Olympia Dukakis and Joan Jett can't make up for a silly story that hangs way too much on a sass-talking GPS and Tess narrating unnecessary exposition out loud to her bemused-looking house cat. [17 Oct 2014, p.64]
It’s too simple and straightforward for its own good. Adapted by screenwriter Richard Christian Matheson, the narrative travels from A to B to C with nary an unexpected twist or subtle discovery.
While Bello is a gifted actress (and this really plays like a one-character study much of the time), as vehicles go, it’s more of a garbage truck than anything else.
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Production Company:
- Lifetime
- Magic Rock Productions
- Ostar Productions
Initial Release Date: Oct 18, 2014
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: Not Rated
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Nomination
Canadian Cinema Editors Awards
• 1 Nomination