Undertow (2004)
Director David Gordon Green marries action, dirt, sweat and menace as he spins a tale of the violent legacy between two generations of brothers. (United Artists)
Cast and Information
Directed By: David Gordon Green
Written By: David Gordon Green, Joe Conway, Lingard Jervey
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas, Kristen Stewart, Pat Healy, Shiri Appleby, Jamie Bell, Robert Longstreet, Michael Bacall, Eddie Rouse, Devon Alan
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Undertow belongs to 11 collections
1. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 19 stars)
2. Best by different standards (public: sesito71 - 6 stars)
3. Brothers (collaborative: moderated by djross - 5 stars)
4. Life in the Deep South (collaborative: moderated by iceblox - 5 stars)
5. Aughties Films to See (public: theficionado - 3 stars)
6. Coheed's Celluloid Pit (public: Coheed - 1 star)
7. Photographed by Tim Orr (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed)
8. Terrence Malick (producer) (collaborative: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer)
9. Movies to See (public: gsb)
10. 2004: Year in Review (public: polanski28)
11. To Watch (public: Temptershell)
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| Nov 18, 2020 | SolomonBurrr | 66 43rd |
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| Nov 06, 2020 |  |
Trash Puppet | 6 32nd |
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Feels like I just watched a film students mid year project that they had to rush to get finished, but with decent actors.
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| Jan 30, 2016 |  |
ronthedog | 79 42nd |
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This starts out as interesting, but ultimately doesn't live up to it's promise. The detail and subtlety of the initial scene-setting is undermined by the ham of the ogreish villian; it's trying to be two things- odd location-piece and a standard thriller, and it doesn't quite realise either.
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| Apr 05, 2015 |  |
hsncrspywl | 66 39th |
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Starts off a lot better than it ends - spends too much time setting itself up as a Southern Gothic thriller, but then meanders with its second and third acts turning more Southern Gothic fairytale. Mixes both to ill-advised effect. Also contains a scene that feels written deliberately to avoid saying the phrase "undertow", which if nothing else draws more attention to how much they don't want to spell out the themes, but they do so anyway. And that's awful.
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| Jun 25, 2014 |  |
mandy | 6 44th |
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Grim and menacing - but the freeze frames and effects didn't add really add anything to it. Great performances.
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| Sep 25, 2013 | donquixotic | 20 13th |
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Wake me up when the idiot who made this gets an editor.
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| Jan 29, 2012 |  |
LB94 | 84 84th |
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Really powerful and heart-warming movie. DGG does fantastic things with the story and the result is a perfectly executed and performed story about tragedy and emotions. Each of the characters are written with great depth, and the ending is a real mover. Stunning film, Jamie Bell is superb.
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| Jan 12, 2012 |  |
ozymandius10 | 75 66th |
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The first half of the movie is excellent, but once the shock comes, it seems to unravel a bit. I didn't take issue with any of the performances or the way it was shot (that was all excellent), but the way the screenplay was written really wasn't even at all. While I enjoyed the ending and felt it put a nice cap on everything, the movie really could've been more. Being a Gordon Green fan, that's disappointing.
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| Nov 14, 2011 |  |
Red_Falcon_ | 67 31st |
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The first half of the film was interesting and engaging.The second half was cliched and dragged on a little to long.
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| Jan 16, 2011 |  |
AceySaid10% | 82 64th |
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Pretty dope movie but the ending doesn't really explain what happened...not that it's an "open" ending for interpretation...it is definitely resolved but it just doesn't really show how stuff went down.
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| Dec 03, 2010 |  |
SlantMag | 30 78th |
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"The rich soundscape of natural noises creates a palpable sense of enveloping environment." - Nick Schager
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| Apr 22, 2010 |  |
JohnSandwich | 70 63rd |
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uneven but a worthwhile watch
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| Mar 30, 2010 |  |
billkerwin | 84 60th |
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With flashes of poetry, but somewhat uneven.
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| Mar 04, 2010 |  |
jeff_v | 61 26th |
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If this were David Gordon Green's only film, I'd be finding ways to praise it, because it shows alot of potential. Green finds unusual locations that you don't see in movies. There's never a dull shot & I'll give him this much: He's trying. But it's his 3rd film. The improvisations are sounding less fresh & more forced. Some of the stylistic tics, like the freeze-frame, just don't work. I left thinking Green needs to adapt a literary work, just so he can be tethered to something less effluvial.
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| Nov 26, 2009 |  |
Prismatic | 79 51st |
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Excellent retelling of Night Of The Hunter.
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| Oct 07, 2007 |  |
Icarus | 60 27th |
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David Gordon Green's first experiment with genre filmmaking ends up decidedly average. Good performances combined with Green's eye for locations should be enough here, but the tone and the pacing feel off, the film dragging quite a bit for most of the final two thirds.
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| Sep 17, 2007 | Dustyd | 50 22nd |
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not all that compelling
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| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
leshii | 71 59th |
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Somewhere towards the end of the movie, something goes wrong with the pacing, the acting, the directing, the everything. David Gordon Green is a genius in the making, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. The first 75% is great anyway.
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| Aug 14, 2007 | kamran | 58 35th |
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Jamie Bell is phenomenal (he's rather adept at playing abused young boys by this point), and Gordon Green achieves some fantastic stand-alone moments, but the screenplay is half-baked, and as a result, only 50% of it takes off. Any other scene involving Josh Lucas is painful to watch.
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| Average Percentile 53.05% from 308 Ratings |  |