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  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 16 m

Summary When Daniel (Ryan Eggold) invites his oldest friends to spend one last weekend at his parents' lake house, secrets are confessed, romances are rekindled, and a particularly epic game of Whiskey Slaps is played. [Tribeca Film]

Directed By: Christopher Lowell

Written By: Mohit Narang, Christopher Lowell

  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 16 m

Beside Still Waters

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary When Daniel (Ryan Eggold) invites his oldest friends to spend one last weekend at his parents' lake house, secrets are confessed, romances are rekindled, and a particularly epic game of Whiskey Slaps is played. [Tribeca Film]

Directed By: Christopher Lowell

Written By: Mohit Narang, Christopher Lowell

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
42
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20% Mixed
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60% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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20% Positive
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20% Mixed
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60% Negative
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70
Nov 13, 2014
While the film has some clunky exposition, and a couple of predictable moments, it creates a real sense of a group of friends who have known one another since high school, who don’t stand on ceremony, and who all, in various ways, struggle with nostalgia.
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60
Nov 13, 2014
Bathed in a nostalgic glow that just avoids maudlin, the group’s problems — a sexless marriage, an unexpected job loss — bark but don’t bite. Scenes flirt with cliché, yet the writing has spark.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
38
Dec 6, 2014
Still waters may run deep, as the old saying goes. But Beside Still Waters there’s nothing deeper than “The Big Chill.”
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
Nov 13, 2014
Lowell, a sitcom actor ("Enlisted") and photographer, lards his "The Big Chill" ripoff with plenty of arty touches... He assumes this will lend the needed heft to paper-thin characters, witless exchanges and emotional recriminations you can see coming a mile away.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
30
Nov 11, 2014
Lowell hews so close to the reunion-film formula he ends up stifling anything new that may otherwise have resulted.
By Pete Vonder Haar FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Storyboard Entertainment
Release Date Nov 14, 2014
Duration 1 h 16 m
Rating TV-MA
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Website https://www.facebook.com/BSWFilm
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Awards

Austin Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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