
An eleven-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries, and comes to terms with love and loss.... (Full plot summary below)
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An eleven-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries, and comes to terms with love and loss.
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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatBeautifully and convincingly conveys the baffling ways in which love and place can work their wonders upon us and bring about transformation in their wake. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedA well-intended but weak and plodding art-house pretender. |
| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Tara ThorneA quiet, moving character study, Off the Map never drifts into genre predictability and features uniformly excellent acting and sharp one-liners from screenwriter Joan Ackerman. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThings just seem to happen without rhyme or reason. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOff the Map is visually beautiful as a portrait of lives in the middle of emptiness, but it's not about the New Mexico scenery. It's about feelings that shift among people who are good enough, curious enough or just maybe tired enough to let that happen. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerScott gives the film a gradual but ever-deepening pace and inspires first-rate performances from his cast. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanIt's a disconnected, implausible story that aims for a tone of magic realism and falls short on both counts. |
| Reel Times: Reflections on CinemaMark Pfeiffer[Off the Map] takes time to breathe, to savor the present and not get bogged down in all the little things that often dominate our attention. |
| Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)Andrew GriffinI should point out that one character that makes the biggest impact is the landscape itself. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereWhat Off the Map lacks in originality, it makes up for with its excellent cast and Scott's lyrical imagery. |