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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Topic
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Topic
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary Every family has its ghosts. The Mosher family has more than most. Shot over a year from one Halloween to the next, the film creates a stunning cinematic portrait of a family who are unique but also sadly representative of the struggles of America's working class. The film was created to be both a universal story of family struggle and a...

Directed By: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher

Written By: Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Topic
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Topic
  • 1 h 20 m

October Country

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary Every family has its ghosts. The Mosher family has more than most. Shot over a year from one Halloween to the next, the film creates a stunning cinematic portrait of a family who are unique but also sadly representative of the struggles of America's working class. The film was created to be both a universal story of family struggle and a...

Directed By: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher

Written By: Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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10 Reviews
21% Mixed
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7% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
66
71% Positive
10 Reviews
21% Mixed
3 Reviews
7% Negative
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100
Jersey Shore may be the hyped example of trashy onscreen “reality,” but this portrait of an upstate working-poor family forsakes guilty-pleasure exploitation and simply wows you in every other way.
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75
This is the face of dysfunction. Apparently alcohol and drugs are not involved, except perhaps with some of the missing men. The drug here is despair. They seem to treat it with cigarettes.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
75
October Country doesn't really have a point, or a story, but it's an almost unbearably vivid portrait of four generations in a single working-class family.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
70
October Country feels at once personal and objective, a fascinating hybrid of two important tendencies in the modern documentary.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
63
What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in.
By Janice Page FULL REVIEW
60
With the nation’s unemployment rate hovering around 10% and home foreclosure numbers stubbornly high, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s haunting documentary of multigenerational troubles is either a case of great timing or, possibly, the worst timing ever.
By Mark Keizer FULL REVIEW
30
A feel-bad film through and through. Chronicling a year in the life of a low-income Mohawk Valley family beset by external hardships and shockingly bad decision-making, the docu straddles the line between unflinching intimacy and invasive exploitation.
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Production Company Wishbone Films
Release Date Feb 12, 2010
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Every family has its ghosts.
Website http://www.octobercountryfilm.com/
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Silverdocs Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Doclisboa International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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