Breaking News in Yuba County

Name: Breaking News in Yuba County
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Released: February 12, 2021
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 24
Cast: Allison Janney, Awkwafina, Chris Lowell, Clifton Collins Jr., Ellen Barkin

2021

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American International Pictures (AIP) | Release Date: February 12, 2021 | R

Starring: Allison Janney, Awkwafina, Chris Lowell, Clifton Collins Jr., Ellen Barkin, Jimmi Simpson, Juliette Lewis, Keong Sim, Matthew Modine, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall, Samira Wiley, T.C. Matherne, Wanda Sykes

Summary: After her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons (Allison Janney), an under-appreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search in Yuba County to find him. In an effort to prolong her newfound fame, she stumbles into hilarious hi jinks as her world turns upside down, dodging a wanna-be mobsterAfter her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons (Allison Janney), an under-appreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search in Yuba County to find him. In an effort to prolong her newfound fame, she stumbles into hilarious hi jinks as her world turns upside down, dodging a wanna-be mobster (Awkwafina), a relentless local policewoman (Regina Hall), her half-sister (Mila Kunis) a local news reporter desperate for a story, and her husband's dead-beat brother (Jimmi Simpson), who all set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearance.… Expand

Director: Tate Taylor

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Sheri Linden

Feb 11, 2021

Breaking News in Yuba County features a pitch-perfect Janney at the center of a game cast of well-knowns. Yet as it fumbles through its unwieldy mix of crime-caper farce, social commentary and black comedy, the genre it most solidly nails is the one that poses the burning question "Why did so many accomplished actors sign on to this?" Read full review

Tim Grierson

Feb 11, 2021

Taylor can’t juggle the different tones, and as Sue tries to stay a step ahead of the crooks and the cops as her lies threaten to unravel, the film’s attempts at societal critique feel facile. Read full review

Allison Shoemaker

Feb 12, 2021

None of the curious friction of its story, nor in its cast, results in any sort of frisson of excitement, dread, or even shock. The best Yuba can inspire is indignation. You get all these folks together, Tate Taylor, and the end result is this? Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Feb 12, 2021

It’s the kind of movie that seems to suck your soul out while you’re watching it, variably crass and slapstick humor landing with a bloody thud. Read full review

Michael Ordona

Feb 12, 2021

Breaking News in Yuba County lacks both the form and substance to cash in on its acting assets. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Feb 12, 2021

A farce that fizzles, a satire that sags, and a dead-end for its gifted cast, Breaking News In Yuba County at least starts well. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Feb 11, 2021

One may wonder how Tate Taylor, who has overseen high-profile, conventional, ostensibly respectable Hollywood product like “The Girl on the Train” and “The Help,” came to direct this amoral, repellent bag of sick, a movie whose biggest ambition in life is to start a bidding war at a late 1990s Sundance Film Festival and then bomb at the box office. Call it water finding its own level, maybe. Read full review

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NyashaPenelopeD

Jun 9, 2021

Cleverly done. You yell "WTF" so many times as you continue watching. A good comedy. Good and silly... I loved it. I totally get it