Downtown Owl

Name: Downtown Owl
Genre: Drama
Released: April 23, 2024
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Andrew Stecker, Annabelle Layland, Arden Michalec, Ed Harris, Emma Halleen

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Stage 6 Films | Release Date (Streaming): April 23, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrew Stecker, Annabelle Layland, Arden Michalec, Ed Harris, Emma Halleen, Finn Wittrock, Henry Golding, Jack Grazer, Jeremy Kucharek, Lily Rabe, Sam Wren Vincent, Vanessa Hudgens

Summary: Life in a small town is always hard, but what about a small town that’s about to be hit with a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm? That’s what the citizens of Owl, North Dakota are about to experience in the winter of 1984. This snowstorm - and the leadup to it - brings together three very different people: nostalgic football fan Horace (EdLife in a small town is always hard, but what about a small town that’s about to be hit with a once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm? That’s what the citizens of Owl, North Dakota are about to experience in the winter of 1984. This snowstorm - and the leadup to it - brings together three very different people: nostalgic football fan Horace (Ed Harris), newbie teacher Julia (Lily Rabe), and depressed quarterback Mitch (August Blanco Rosenstein). Based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman. [Tribeca]… Expand

Director: Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Sheri Linden

Apr 23, 2024

The tyro directors manage to thread a tricky needle with their first feature, navigating the chasm and the overlap between agitated and quiet, between cartoon brightness and angst. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Apr 23, 2024

It’s a slice of life, surely, but a meager one at that. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Apr 22, 2024

It’s an occasionally interesting, well-acted mess. Read full review

The Playlist Marshall Shaffer

Apr 23, 2024

The drama in Downtown Owl often feels stilted and too locked in to Klosterman’s observations instead of the character’s actions. Read full review

Jesse Hassenger

Jun 12, 2023

Despite its rueful musings on the time that passes whether or not you’re properly occupying yourself, and despite the clear passion Rabe and Linklater exhibit for this material, Downtown Owl persists in a kind of circular ramble. It’s so transfixed by the process of muddling through that the movie itself becomes an indistinct muddle of its own. Read full review

Screen Rant Mae Abdulbaki

Apr 23, 2024

The characters have a myriad of flaws and plights that would have made them compelling, but the film fails to explore them beyond the surface. Read full review

Tomris Laffly

Jun 9, 2023

This is a movie that neither works as a quirky dark comedy about the hapless people of a small town (on that note, the film is painfully unfunny), nor as a period piece on the anxieties of the Reagan era, no matter how many “1984” references the characters throw at you. Read full review

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