SummaryIn the hazy aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Sarah (Olivia Wilde) and Phil (Luke Wilson) come unhinged, recklessly ignoring the repercussions. Phil starts to lose sight of his morals; Sarah takes off on a potentially disastrous journey, falling deeper into her own fever dream.
Directed By:Reed Morano
Written By:Chris Rossi
Meadowland
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Generally Favorable
67
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Generally Favorable
7.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
82% Positive
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Sep 22, 2015
80
What Meadowland refuses to do, to its great credit, is conform to expectations.
Oct 12, 2015
75
Both Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson understand the greatest pain of loss to be rooted in its searing inexpressibility.
Oct 22, 2015
70
What saves Meadowland from being an exercise in masochism is the acting. Wilson and Wilde have a light touch that makes them perfect for the comedies they often make. Here, Morano leads them to much darker places, and they plunge right in.
Sep 22, 2015
70
Chris Rossi built Meadowland’s screenplay on short, punchy scenes, and he deserves credit for crafting moments of quotidian ordinariness... that are also charged with tension.
Sep 22, 2015
67
Atmosphere and feelings can only do so much when story, and its credible beats, seem to have fallen by the wayside.
Oct 16, 2015
63
In the end, it feels like Morano didn’t trust her actors quite enough to be the conduits of emotion, falling back on too many filmmaking and screenwriting tropes that hamper the realism of their work.
Oct 13, 2015
60
The filmmakers take great pains not to stack the deck or overstate the couple's self-evident trauma, but watching the movie is ultimately like being one of their friends: You understand their pain on a conceptual level but can't feel it the way they do.
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56% Positive
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Feb 16, 2016
4
Despite solid performances by an excellent cast, the movie never really hits its stride. The film's basic premise -- a young married couple's attempts at coping with the disappearance of their child -- leads the protagonists to engage in an array of erratic and risky behavior, which, when taken collectively, verges on unbelievable if not ludicrous. Passing off a meandering narrative as sublime art just doesn't work here, no matter how good the acting and cinematography are.
Production Company:
- BRON Studios
- Itaca Films
Release Date:Oct 16, 2015
Duration:1 h 45 m
Rating:R
Tagline:What if you had nothing left to lose but your mind?
Awards
Hermosillo International Film Festival, Mexico
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination
Casting Society (CSA)
• 1 Nomination
