Welcome to Pine Hill

Name: Welcome to Pine Hill
Genre: Drama
Released: March 1, 2013
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 74

2013

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Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: March 1, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, Welcome to Pine Hill follows Shannon, a reformed drug dealer who is now an insurance claims adjuster, in the days following a grim medical diagnosis. Shannon sets out to make peace with those around him and in turn find his own peace beyond the cacophony of New York City. [Oscilloscope]

Director: Keith Miller

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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Noel Murray

Feb 27, 2013

Welcome To Pine Hill is a short, docu-realistic film, with very little plot and scenes that play like loose improvisations. Miller is mainly interested in the various spaces Harper inhabits, and how he inhabits them. Read full review

Eric Hynes

Feb 26, 2013

Miller’s ace in the hole is the hulking, regal Harper, whose round face vacillates between childlike mirth and lung-stomping sadness. His casual charisma not only commands our attention and affection, it sidelines every social or thematic concern to this singular, tentatively aspiring life. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Feb 28, 2013

[Mr. Miller's] film shows the influence of other recent work in the American neo-neo-realist vein, notably Ramin Bahrani’s “Goodbye, Solo” and Lance Hammer’s “Ballast,” and like them relies on understatement and indirection to arrive at a powerful and resonant meaning. Read full review

Jonathan Kiefer

Mar 1, 2013

At times the improvised dialogue seems too schematic and superfluous, especially in view of such exploratory and observant handheld camera work. Otherwise, though, this is wonderful stuff. Read full review

Staff [Not Credited]

Jun 6, 2013

Mixes real-life situations and characters with fictionalized narrative threads to create a highly authentic slice-of-life drama. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Mar 2, 2013

While far from perfect, Welcome To Pine Hill works more often than it doesn’t and is an intimate and existential character study of a man out of place with his past, himself, and his surroundings, and the push and pull of former and future worlds beckoning him. Read full review

Nick McCarthy

Feb 26, 2013

Keith Miller doesn't always trust the fluency of his visual language, occasionally forcing a point that's already being captured. Read full review

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