Beneath the Harvest Sky

Name: Beneath the Harvest Sky
Genre: Drama
Released: May 2, 2014
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 62

2014

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Tribeca Film | Release Date: May 2, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Casper (Emory Cohen) and Dominic (Callan McAuliffe) have been fiercely loyal friends since childhood. Desperate for a way out of their quiet town on the Maine-Canada border, the boys make a pact to pool their earnings on a car and hit the road. But when Casper is drawn into drug smuggling with his outlaw father (Aidan Gillen) to pay hisCasper (Emory Cohen) and Dominic (Callan McAuliffe) have been fiercely loyal friends since childhood. Desperate for a way out of their quiet town on the Maine-Canada border, the boys make a pact to pool their earnings on a car and hit the road. But when Casper is drawn into drug smuggling with his outlaw father (Aidan Gillen) to pay his share, their friendship is pushed to the brink and adult choices forced on them all too soon. [Tribeca Film]… Expand

Director: Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 116 min

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Peter Debruge

Apr 23, 2014

Beneath the Harvest Sky offers a heartbreakingly authentic, vividly realized account of adolescent frustration and yearning. Read full review

Keith Staskiewicz

May 1, 2014

The film’s first half feels almost as directionless as its characters, but the detailed specificity of the milieu and story proves engrossing. Read full review

The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic

May 19, 2014

On both technical and thematic levels, the filmmakers have succeeded in using the tools of cinema to carve out an authentic look at troubled youth, and the choices we have to make in order to steer away from the wrong path. Read full review

Nick Prigge

Apr 27, 2014

It flourishes in the spaces between the plot's necessary setups and subsequent payoffs, which is nearly enough to redeem the film if not for the narrative going belly up in the third act. Read full review

Ty Burr

May 8, 2014

While the climax of Beneath the Harvest Sky is a jumble of crosscutting, thunderstorms, and an inconveniently collapsing house, the movie never loses the pulse of people and tragedies it knows too well. Read full review

Stephen Holden

May 1, 2014

Beneath the Harvest Sky reaches a dramatic climax that is so rushed and confusing, you are left scratching your head. But for all its missteps, the film feels authentic. Through thick and thin, it stubbornly maintains a thorny integrity. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Apr 23, 2014

Cohen and McAuliffe fail to distinguish their characters from the umpteen previous iterations of “sensible guy and his hotheaded best friend,” and the film winds up less interested in their relationship than in the compelling details of the smuggling operation, with which they’re only tangentially associated. Read full review

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Oct 3, 2014

Excellent but depressing as F.

This is one of the best coming of age films I've seen this year. Great performances specifically from the young lead.

It won't have you weeping like Fault in Our Stars but leaves you with an empty feeling.

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