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A Dark Place

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A Dark Place
Film poster
Directed bySimon Fellows
Written byBrendan Higgins
Produced byMark Williams
Tai Duncan
Gareth Ellis-Unwin
Leon Clarance
StarringAndrew Scott
Bronagh Waugh
Denise Gough
CinematographyMarcel Zyskind
Edited byChris Dickens
David Arshadi
Music byJohn Hardy Music
Distributed byShout! Studios
Release date
  • April 19, 2019 (2019-04-19)[1]
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Dark Place (also titled Steel Country)[1] is a 2019 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Simon Fellows and starring Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough.

Plot

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When a local boy goes missing, Donald Devlin (Andrew Scott), a small-town sanitation worker on the autism spectrum, dives headlong into the mystery in an attempt to solve it.

Cast

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  • Andrew Scott as Donald Devlin
  • Bronagh Waugh as Donna Reutzel
  • Denise Gough as Linda Connolly
  • Michael Rose as Sheriff Benjamin Mooney
  • Christa Bell Campbell as Wendy Connolly
  • Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Betty Devlin
  • Andrew Massett as Dr. Joel Pomorski
  • Griff Furst as Max Himmler
  • Jason Davis as Jerry Zeigler
  • Kate Forbes as Patty Zeigler
  • Cory Scott Allen as Randy Helsel

Reception

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The film has 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]

Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars.[3] Ben Travis of Empire awarded the film three stars out of five.[1] Stephen Carty of Radio Times also awarded the film three stars out of five.[4]

Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable."[5] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Scott's strong, startling performance is the most effective element of Simon Fellows' offbeat crime thriller."[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Travis, Ben (18 April 2019). "Steel Country Review". Empire. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  2. ^ "A Dark Place". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  3. ^ Henderson, Odie (12 April 2019). "A Dark Place". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  4. ^ Carty, Stephen. "Steel Country". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  5. ^ Harvey, Dennis (8 April 2019). "Film Review: 'A Dark Place'". Variety. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  6. ^ Scheck, Frank (10 April 2019). "'A Dark Place': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
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