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  • 2018
  • Pressing Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2018
  • Pressing Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Sadie is the story of a 13-year-old girl who lives at home with her mother while her father serves repeated tours in the military. Sadie is extremely attached to her father despite his prolonged absence, and when her mother begins dating a new man, Sadie takes extreme measures to end the relationship and safeguard her family through the ...

Directed By: Megan Griffiths

Written By: Megan Griffiths

  • 2018
  • Pressing Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2018
  • Pressing Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m

Sadie

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Sadie is the story of a 13-year-old girl who lives at home with her mother while her father serves repeated tours in the military. Sadie is extremely attached to her father despite his prolonged absence, and when her mother begins dating a new man, Sadie takes extreme measures to end the relationship and safeguard her family through the ...

Directed By: Megan Griffiths

Written By: Megan Griffiths

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
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45% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
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45% Mixed
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88
Oct 8, 2018
Its honesty and power makes it feel large; you live among these characters in their weary trailer park, aching for them.
By Moira Macdonald FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 8, 2018
Equal parts coming-of-age story and slow-burn thriller, writer-director Megan Griffiths’ quietly absorbing and methodically disquieting drama is a genuine rarity: a sympathetic portrait of a budding sociopath.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 11, 2018
While the pace of “Sadie” meanders and is often a bit pokey, the excellent cast, including Danielle Brooks as Carla, the local bartender and Rae’s best friend, brings your attention fully to the dramatic goings-on in this tiny community.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 6, 2018
Director Griffiths never lets reality slip too far beyond her film’s grasp, though the sexual complications, all of them, play like melodramatic conventions, some less organic than others. She’s still delivered a convincing portrait of a world and how its limited horizons shape those who might never escape it.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
58
Oct 8, 2018
Schloss compellingly combines the rangy wildness of hormonal teenagehood with Sadie’s more terrifying instincts, toeing the line between pissed-off teen and possible psychopath with ease. Her Sadie is both brutally dead-eyed and weirdly charismatic; you simply can’t turn away from her, even when you really, really want to.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 12, 2018
The gloomy turns in her film accumulate to such an extreme outcome in the end that you inevitably start raising your eyebrows to the contrived narrative. In that, Sadie shares its protagonist’s most defining attribute — a frustratingly manipulative nature.
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50
Oct 11, 2018
Lynskey and Schloss are well matched as mother and daughter, and Griffiths builds a relationship between them as this far-from-innocent teenager navigates her world. That rough journey is worth watching even when this film falls short.
By Ken Jaworowski FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Electric Dream Factory, Pressing Pictures
Release Date Oct 12, 2018
Duration 1 h 36 m
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Tagline Pick Your Battles
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Awards

Seattle International Film Festival
• 4 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Giffoni Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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