Bravetown

Name: Bravetown
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: May 8, 2015
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 36

2015

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Eone Entertainment | Release Date: May 8, 2015 | R

Summary: Josh Harvest (Lucas Till), a hardened New York City teen from a broken home - and quietly one of the country's top dance club DJs and remixers - is sentenced to counseling for a minor drug infraction, along with an extended stay with his estranged father, who lives in a small town in North Dakota. He is slow to warm to his new environment,Josh Harvest (Lucas Till), a hardened New York City teen from a broken home - and quietly one of the country's top dance club DJs and remixers - is sentenced to counseling for a minor drug infraction, along with an extended stay with his estranged father, who lives in a small town in North Dakota. He is slow to warm to his new environment, a town best-known for sending its young off to war, many of whom never return. But when Josh is asked to help out the last-place dance team as they vie for the state competition title, his rough exterior begins to soften. As his relationships emerge with both the team's captain, Mary, and his therapist, each of whom have lost someone special to war, it forces all three to begin to face and heal their pasts.… Expand

Director: Daniel Duran

Genre(s): Drama, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 112 min

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Sheila O’Malley

May 6, 2015

What’s best about the film is its willingness to go deep, its strange yet effective fluidity between serious scenes and dance numbers, and Duran’s grace with weighty subjects. Read full review

Danny King

May 5, 2015

Aside from a showy opening (a tracking shot that snakes through a club, cribbing freely from Carlito's Way, Boogie Nights, etc.), the movie satisfies mainly due to its affecting ensemble and considerable emotional intelligence. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

May 8, 2015

Older audiences are likely to find the film less amusing than risible. Read full review

Stephen Holden

May 7, 2015

Bravetown, directed by Daniel Duran from a screenplay by Oscar Orlando Torres, can sometimes drown in its own tears. Read full review

Barbara VanDenburgh

May 7, 2015

There is nothing brave about Bravetown, a film so paint-by-the-numbers bland that its efforts to piggyback the sacrifice of American servicemen and women for emotional depth is downright craven. Read full review

Sheri Linden

May 7, 2015

First-time director Daniel Duran, working from a screenplay by Oscar Torres that abounds in the maudlin and risible, isn't able to lift the ham-handed material to a place where it might ring true. Read full review

Stephen Witty

May 6, 2015

This isn’t Bravetown. It’s Crazytown. Read full review

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alexa417

Oct 2, 2015

Satisfies mainly due to its affecting ensemble and considerable emotional intelligence.

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BlazinBlitzer

Jan 9, 2016

I walked into this movie expecting a boring, melodramatic piece of crap. It was melodramatic, but it wasn't really that boring.

Lucas Till puts on a solid performance as the main protagonist which was actually very key in this movie. I also found Jae Head (I really hate that name)I walked into this movie expecting a boring, melodramatic piece of crap. It was melodramatic, but it wasn't really that boring.

Lucas Till puts on a solid performance as the main protagonist which was actually very key in this movie. I also found Jae Head (I really hate that name) actually does very well as his character also.

The first 30 minutes of this movie were definitely the best ones. The drama felt right in the beginning, and the whole situation felt kinda unique. While the editing here might be a little subpar, but the structure of the scenes feels right.

Another thing I kept note of through the movie was how real the characters interactions were. Most of the time, I cared about where everyone was going in the plot. The lighting is excellent, and the camera work, while iffy at times, is acceptable. While this is pretty inspired by Pitch Perfect, and less comedic, I think this idea is executed fair enough through the movie.

After the first 30 minutes; however, the film runs into a few glaring issues. Whoever acted as Mary did a poor job at her character. She always seem kinda fake when going through the emotional scenes of the movie, which kind of ruined most of the scenes with her in it. Also, Alex always seemed unrealistic when it came to approaching Josh as a counselor, so the connection scenes felt way too scripted and nonexistent. The high school characters (Teacher, bullies) have been written out of a plot hole way too obviously so Josh could have a harder conflict and it makes everybody at that school seem like a douche, especially the bullies for getting mad over a dance competition, and that would work, but the movie makes you sympathize for them. Really? I didn't like the whole "Robert + Alex " plot twist near the end, and it only made the plot more confusing. The relationship conflicts aren't even that good, with way too many melodramatic elements and predictability in them, even though there were a couple of scenes where I predicted wrong.

The movie is definitely not as bad as what critics are saying, but you should be cautious that the story is very melodramatic with predictable turns, but the idea is somewhat spun half-uniquely and the parent relationship scenes are pretty emotional, so if you want an okay melodrama, this is the movie for you. Otherwise, watch Pitch Perfect if you're looking for something musical.… Expand

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smiyamot

Oct 1, 2016

Big city boy forced to move to small town America and making friends via his musical acumen; sounds like "Footloose" with Kevin Bacon? The individual stories are different but the main story line leads to everyone coming to terms with their lives in a Hollywood ending.

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