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Turn the River
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 10 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Chris Eigeman
Directed by: Chris Eigeman
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 9, 2008
DVD: July 22, 2008
Running Time: 92 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language
Starring Famke Janssen, Jaymie Dornan, Rip Torn, Matt Ross, and Lois Smith
A poker-playing pool hustler takes her last shot at redemption by trying to score enough money to run away with the son she was forced to abandon at birth. (Screen Media Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Variety Ronnie Scheib
Atmospheric picture positively vibrates with authenticity, and Janssen's intense, febrile performance earned a special jury prize at the Hamptons fest.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
Turn the River can't weather the ante-upping into pathos when Kailey desperately reasserts her privilege of motherhood--but the sense of storytelling intelligence is undeniable.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
Has a mixture of edginess and melancholy that's beautifully sustained until the climax, when the tang of realism becomes the cudgel of melodrama.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Turn the River becomes a standard fatalistic misfits-on-the-run movie with more than its share of improbabilities. It's as if Eigeman didn't realize how good the best parts of his film were, and so went ahead and trashed them.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
Skip the coda to this movie, with its tiny upswing of hope, and remember the days at the tables, as dim and endless as nights, and the click of the dialogue.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
The main problem with Turn the River is that it's a well-acted, if not terribly well-crafted, character-driven drama without much in the way of a purpose.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Until it transforms into an improbable thriller, Turn the River is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
An only-in-the-movies mother hustles pool to raise the money to abduct the son she's been forbidden to see since her divorce.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's not sharp or ironic, but drab and downbeat. Unfortunately, it's also going to feel utterly familiar to those who've seen their share of independent dramas in the last 15 years.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Turn the River lacks almost everything Eigeman has as a performer: charisma, wit and snappy delivery.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jay H. gave it a6:
Slowly paced but it works for most of this movie. Very well acted by the entire cast, the story is well written and the direction by Chris Eigeman is very careful and thoughtful.
