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  • 2023
  • R
  • Momentum Pictures
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • Momentum Pictures
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary Seventeen-year-old Lea (Lily McInerny) spends her summer break aimlessly tanning in her backyard with her best friend, tiptoeing around her needy mother, and getting stoned with a group of boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom (Jonathan Tucker), an older man who promises an alternative to Lea’s uns...

Written By: Audrey Findlay

  • 2023
  • R
  • Momentum Pictures
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • Momentum Pictures
  • 1 h 50 m

Palm Trees and Power Lines

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
73
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Seventeen-year-old Lea (Lily McInerny) spends her summer break aimlessly tanning in her backyard with her best friend, tiptoeing around her needy mother, and getting stoned with a group of boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom (Jonathan Tucker), an older man who promises an alternative to Lea’s uns...

Written By: Audrey Findlay

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Metascore
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100
Jan 28, 2022
Fearsome and fearless at the same time, Palm Trees and Power Lines practically dares viewers to watch what’s happening on screen without flinching.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
87
Oct 11, 2022
While Palm Trees and Power Lines certainly functions as a cautionary tale, it derives the intensity of its power from the uncomfortable degree to which we’re compelled to empathize with Lea as she makes a string of increasingly perilous decisions.
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80
Oct 25, 2022
Expanded from a short that Dack wrote and directed previously, this mini-budget indie effort slowly draws audiences in through vicarious observation.
By Martin Carr FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 28, 2022
It’s trite to say a debut performance is a revelation, but the whole film simply does not work without McInerny, who is fully convincing as a girl on an emotional precipice. It’s an astoundingly calibrated turn, one of barely lidded emotions that eventually skitter about
By Adrian Horton FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 10, 2023
Palm Trees and Power Lines is eerie, provocative, and thought-provoking.
By Nadir Samara FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 1, 2023
While Palm Trees and Power Lines functions as a harrowing lesson for the worst-case scenarios of grooming, there’s an emptiness to the experience that, while reflecting our protagonist’s journey, results in a film that doesn’t feel fully formed.
By Jordan Raup FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 2, 2023
Dack takes obvious care to make sure that the filmmaking and camerawork don’t further exploit the character. Yet it’s a bummer that the ethical and political thoughtfulness that she extends during Lea’s most harrowingly vulnerable moments doesn’t extend to the rest of the movie.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Mar 3, 2023
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating R
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Awards

Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 4 Nominations
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Torino Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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