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- 2019
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 29 m
- 2019
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 29 m
Summary (Also known as "Steel Country") When a young boy goes missing in a sleepy backwoods town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation.
Directed By: Simon Fellows
Written By: Brendan Higgins
- 2019
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 29 m
- 2019
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 29 m
A Dark Place
41
6.3
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Summary (Also known as "Steel Country") When a young boy goes missing in a sleepy backwoods town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation.
Directed By: Simon Fellows
Written By: Brendan Higgins
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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75% Mixed
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6 Reviews
13% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
41
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
75% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Donnie is a most unusual character to serve as our tour guide to “A Dark Place.” British character actor Andrew Scott (“Spectre,””Pride” and TV’s Moriarty in “Sherlock”) utterly immerses himself in this “town weirdo” character who becomes obsessed with a little boy on his route who disappears, and then is found drowned in a local creek.
But it's Scott who fully carries the film, helping us overlook the story's contrivances with his moving and intense performance as a character who is as far removed from Professor Moriarty as you can get.
The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable.
A Dark Place is earnest enough, but it comes across as phony. It’s hard to do a “local color” drama when everyone’s from out of town.
Unfortunately, Scott is the most persuasive element in a film that is atmospherically photographed by Marcel Zyskind but let down by a clueless screenplay which borders, at times, on the risible.
It’s a bungled business, making obvious errors of staging.
The Fleabag star’s detailed performance in this missing-child thriller makes its myriad implausibilities all the more dismaying.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
6.3
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
6.3
50% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
25% Mixed
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1 Rating
25% Negative
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Production Company
Bedlam Productions,
Zero Gravity Management
Release Date Apr 12, 2019
Duration 1 h 29 m
Awards
The Queerties
• 1 Nomination
