
Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy's mother, Allison Connor, is a member of the Meskada County Board of Commissioners, and a powerful woman in Hilliard. The entire township of Caswell rallies together in solidarity - not to support her and Detective Cordin's efforts to find the killers (who appear to have come from Caswell) but to keep the way clear for a n... (Full plot summary below)
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Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy's mother, Allison Connor, is a member of the Meskada County Board of Commissioners, and a powerful woman in Hilliard. The entire township of Caswell rallies together in solidarity - not to support her and Detective Cordin's efforts to find the killers (who appear to have come from Caswell) but to keep the way clear for a new business with 500 jobs coming to town.
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| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenA piece filled with well-drawn characters and steadily building tensions, a story told in an economical, unshowy way, but as a whole, the movie never quite builds a solid momentum or finds a true sense of purpose. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfEfforts are muddled and the story incomplete, making the feature limp along, in search of something substantial and focused to lean against. While initially moody and raw, the film quickly falls apart. |
| Filmcritic.comBlake FrenchThe script needs a map -- or a world atlas, for that matter -- because it has no clue where it's going or how to get there. |
| Time OutDerek AdamsSmall in scope but smart in the way it deals with how cosy communities react when something rotten surfaces in their world. |
| L.A. WeeklyPhil ColdironSternfield's direction isn't spry enough to handle the abrupt shift in genre when this moves from detective tale to social-problem film, and things bottom out with a town hall meeting tepidly shot as courtroom drama that stops the story's momentum dead in its tracks and leaves Meskada limping through its last half-hour. |
| Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerSternfeld's depiction of small town life feels completely inauthentic at almost every level. |
| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneIt might be fair to investigate if "Josh Sternfeld" is a programming language, not a director. |
| User ReviewClarke DI actually enjoyed this movie. It was interesting and enjoyed the acting by Kellan Lutz and Norman Reedus. |
| User ReviewGabriel KAn slow-moving indie drama that starts off as a typical small-town crime story but quickly becomes more complex. I liked the deliberate pace of the movie, and how the director lets the story unfold without gimmicks or over the top drama. The narrative is uneven at times as it's complex enough for an inexperience director to pull off, but he manages to keep it on track, and while the acting is uneven as well, especially from unknown supporting cast, it doesn't stop it from being an engaging movie. |
| User ReviewAmy Jade SNice little gem of a film... good portrayal of small-town politics which culminates into a good old-fashioned class struggle. Nick Stahl's gloomy face was well-chosen and Norman Reedus manages to balance just enough sleaze and humanity to make you wonder if there really are any "bad guys" in this story. Laura Benanti was a surprising powerhouse as the grieving, enraged mother. Yup, she made me cry. Worth seeing, more than once. |