Jack and I enjoyed streaming this story of an unstable 30-something woman who believes she was kidnapped as a child and seeks out the bereaved couple. Winner of last year's Sundance Screenwriting Award and nominated for two Spirit Awards (see my list here), it was in last Monday's Watching email newsletter from the New York Times.
Andrea Riseborough and Steve Buscemi (both last blogged for The Death of Stalin) are terrific as the numbed-out protagonist and the guarded man who lost his child, respectively. J. Smith-Cameron (she's been in a lot of things I've seen, notably twelve episodes of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Mighty Aphrodite (1995), the First Wives Club (1996), In & Out (1997), You Can Count on Me (2000), thirty episodes of Rectify, three of Divorce, and one of Mozart in the Jungle) is marvelous and Spirit Award-nominated for playing the hopeful mother. Ann Dowd (most recently in these pages for American Animals) and John Leguizamo (last blogged for The Infiltrator) make brief but noteworthy appearances, too.
Director/writer Christina Choe makes her feature debut and is Spirit-nominated for Best First Screenplay. She really keeps us guessing,
Peter Raeburn's (new to me) eerie score is available on spotify, Apple Music, and more.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics are averaging 86% and its audiences 69. You can rent this on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.
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