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Turn the River
2008 1h 32m R
Drama
5.8
62%
45%
54%
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A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
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Directed By
Chris Eigeman
Written By
Chris Eigeman
Studio
Bandora
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Mr. Nice
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Cast of Turn the River
Famke Janssen
Kailey
Rip Torn
Quinette
Matt Ross
David
Lois Smith
Abby
Terry Kinney
Markus
Ari Graynor
Charlotte
Marin Hinkle
Ellen
Jaymie Dornan
Gulley
John Juback
Duncan
Anthony Robles
Ralph
Jordan Bridges
Brad
Santo D’Asaro
Scott
Zoe Lister-Jones
Kat
Chris Eigeman
Mike Simms
Turn the River Reviews
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Turn the River lacks almost everything Eigeman has as a performer: charisma, wit and snappy delivery.
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.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Janssen, who reportedly did her own pool shooting, is [best] served in the scenes with Gulley, which are wrenching in a coolly understated way.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
We're left after this terse and anxious film knowing nothing more about the world than that Janssen looks cool bending over and glaring at the eight-ball
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
A well-acted, if not terribly well-crafted, character-driven drama without much in the way of a purpose.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Turn the River is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
A small-scale but thoroughly engrossing drama full of strong performances and sharp dialogue.
Filmcritic.com
Paul Brenner
captures the scant, fetid tone of broken down pool halls and cracked glass bars infested with third-rate hustlers and frat boys slumming for a hustle
Metromix.com
Matt Pais
No glamorized games here, just a bleak look at a bleak story of a woman trying to crawl her way up from a life of limited options.
Boxoffice Magazine
Chad Greene
Hopefully, more moviegoers will catch a performance as promising as this Turn in another rack.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
It's a bumpy film, and though no one may see it, it's impossible to imagine it playing as gracefully, like its effectively open-ended finale, without Janssen's conviction to her role.
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
Janssen offers the performance of her career.
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Nick Davis
Turn the River, sometimes like Kailey herself and sometimes not, has a laudable habit of pulling back at the right moments and proving its mettle in unexpected ways.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
The sense of storytelling intelligence is undeniable.
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.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The movie has a mixture of edginess and melancholy that's beautifully sustained until the climax, when the tang of realism becomes the cudgel of melodrama.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
[This] atmospheric pic positively vibrates with authenticity.
Film Journal International
David Noh
A modest, grittily surfaced film that, while nothing earth-shaking, manages to hold your interest, despite its basic been-there/done-that premise.
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