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  • 1995
  • Not Rated
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 1995
  • Not Rated
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 16 m

Summary Kelly Reichardt’s darkly funny debut feature, brought the writer/director back to the setting of her adolescence, the suburban landscape of southern Florida, where she grew up with her detective father and narcotics agent mother. Shot on 16mm, the story follows the misadventures of disaffected house-wife "Cozy", played by Lisa Bowman, an...

Directed By: Kelly Reichardt

Written By: Jesse Hartman, Kelly Reichardt

  • 1995
  • Not Rated
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 1995
  • Not Rated
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 16 m

River of Grass

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Kelly Reichardt’s darkly funny debut feature, brought the writer/director back to the setting of her adolescence, the suburban landscape of southern Florida, where she grew up with her detective father and narcotics agent mother. Shot on 16mm, the story follows the misadventures of disaffected house-wife "Cozy", played by Lisa Bowman, an...

Directed By: Kelly Reichardt

Written By: Jesse Hartman, Kelly Reichardt

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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25% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
71
75% Positive
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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91
If one were to watch this jagged, restless movie with no knowledge of who made it, guessing that it sprung from the same mind that created "Old Joy" or "Meek’s Cutoff" would be impossible. Intuiting that this gifted novice filmmaker would go on to bigger and better things, however, would be child’s play.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
90
At every turn, Reichardt confounds predictability, confronting us with the awful banality of many people's everyday lives rather than providing her characters with an escape from it. Yet Reichardt is so agile, ingenious and funny that she can make a lively, entertaining movie about how life isn't like the movies.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
75
The kind of meandering apathy that Reichardt is going for in River of Grass can be tough to connect to as a viewer, and it’s interesting that her films became more resonant when they switched from what is kind of a comedy to drama.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
75
Kelly Reichardt's film is a wry, appealingly raggedy look at the impossibility of conjuring up excitement from boredom.
By James Lattimer FULL REVIEW
70
Highly original and filmed with perfect assurance, River of Grass is one of the finest independent films of recent years.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
60
Unfortuately, the film emerges more as a listless travelogue than as a philosophical trek. Stylized in the manner of "Badlands" with a flat voice-over from the film's dullard female lead, River of Grass is a meandering and ultimately uninvolving film. [26 Jan 1994]
By Duane Byrge FULL REVIEW
50
River of Grass works much better as a jokey , theoretical piece of genre revisionism than as a real movie.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Glass Eye Pix, Good Machine
Release Date Aug 4, 1995
Duration 1 h 16 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 4 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Torino International Festival of Young Cinema
• 1 Nomination

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