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Turn the River
Screen Media Films
MPAA RATING: R for language
Starring
Famke Janssen,
Jaymie Dornan,
Rip Torn,
Matt Ross,
and
Lois Smith
A poker-playing pool hustler takes her last shot at redemption by trying to score enough money to run away with the son she was forced to abandon at birth. (Screen Media Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Chris Eigeman
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Chris Eigeman
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 22, 2008
Theatrical: May 9, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
92 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Atmospheric picture positively vibrates with authenticity, and Janssen's intense, febrile performance earned a special jury prize at the Hamptons fest.

70
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
Turn the River can't weather the ante-upping into pathos when Kailey desperately reasserts her privilege of motherhood--but the sense of storytelling intelligence is undeniable.

70
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Has a mixture of edginess and melancholy that's beautifully sustained until the climax, when the tang of realism becomes the cudgel of melodrama.

67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Turn the River becomes a standard fatalistic misfits-on-the-run movie with more than its share of improbabilities. It's as if Eigeman didn't realize how good the best parts of his film were, and so went ahead and trashed them.

60
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Skip the coda to this movie, with its tiny upswing of hope, and remember the days at the tables, as dim and endless as nights, and the click of the dialogue.

60
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The main problem with Turn the River is that it's a well-acted, if not terribly well-crafted, character-driven drama without much in the way of a purpose.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Until it transforms into an improbable thriller, Turn the River is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
An only-in-the-movies mother hustles pool to raise the money to abduct the son she's been forbidden to see since her divorce.

40
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's not sharp or ironic, but drab and downbeat. Unfortunately, it's also going to feel utterly familiar to those who've seen their share of independent dramas in the last 15 years.

38
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Turn the River lacks almost everything Eigeman has as a performer: charisma, wit and snappy delivery.


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