In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.... (Full plot summary below)
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In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
Leave your thoughts about The World Made Straight.
| Movie ChambersPaul ChambersYes, this is one of those low-budget gems you're always hearing about. Sub-par production values, certainly. But an intriguing story with excellent acting. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Charles MartinThe film's story is a simple one, which makes its two-hour running time absolutely confounding. |
| Film Journal InternationalFrank Lovece[The World Made Straight has] unerringly true performances and an almost documentary grasp of life in 1970s Appalachia. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJeremy Irvine is the sympathetic focus, but it’s Noah Wyle who holds the movie together, as a former teacher who lost his job through a malicious student’s prank. Smart, self-possessed and capable, this fellow nonetheless carries himself with an awareness of some underlying guilt. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreIt’s a slow film, and almost painfully melodramatic in its obvious twists and turns. But the performances are finely tuned, and the story arc and situations — aside from a few pauses for a song — quietly gripping. |
| New York PostKyle SmithThough the film, based on a Ron Rash novel, doesn’t quite deliver on all its grim portents, debut director David Burris creates a neo-Faulknerian atmosphere of indelible sin in a story that rises above cliché. As Wyle’s character puts it, “The South was never one thing.” |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzThe movie never entirely rises to the height of its ambitions, though: there are moments when you can practically hear it straining to impart significance to what is, in the end, a fairly standard sensitive-young-criminal-in-over-his-head story. |
| Village VoiceMichael NordineOn-the-nose monologues on the cyclical nature of centuries-old blood feuds ultimately feel more like stuffy lectures than living history; ditto the film as a whole. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe film's saving grace is its fine performances. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenThe movie finally feels more manufactured than organic, a travelogue of portent, complete with plangent guitars and peopled by characters from the backwoods playbook. |
