Northern Borders

Name: Northern Borders
Genre: Drama
Released: January 16, 2015
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 44

2015

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| Release Date: January 16, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: Ten year-old Austen Kittredge is sent by his father to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he has wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It’s 1956 and Austen experiences Kingdom County as a place full of eccentric people, including his stubborn grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty YearsTen year-old Austen Kittredge is sent by his father to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he has wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It’s 1956 and Austen experiences Kingdom County as a place full of eccentric people, including his stubborn grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years War. Initially feeling stuck in this fractured household, young Austen plans a quick exit but ends up stranded with no choice but to navigate and endure.… Expand

Director: Jay Craven

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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Peter Keough

Apr 9, 2015

When the two veteran actors team up in Vermont writer-director Jay Craven’s wry, uneven Northern Borders, adapted from Howard Frank Mosher’s novel, they mesh so well they almost hold the rest of the movie together. But their nuanced performances underscore the weakness of the rest of the cast, and Craven’s erratic tonal shifts from the whimsical to the sentimental trip up the episodic plot. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Jan 15, 2015

It all adds up to somewhat less than the sum of its parts, but it's made palatable by the well-evoked rural atmosphere and the typically expert performances by the two leads. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Jan 13, 2015

It's easy to get lost in the natural beauty of Vermont, and Mosher (who worked on the film with several students as part of a Marlboro College program) clearly takes joy in doing so. The liveliest counterpart to that striking landscape isn't Dern, but rather Jessica Hecht as his wayward daughter, who hits all the grace notes the rest of the film tends to miss. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Jan 15, 2015

Mr. Dern is fine in his crotchety-old-man mode, but the rest of the acting is labored, and the story is an unfocused mishmash. Read full review

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kirvia

Feb 16, 2020

This movie misses a plot. They bring in characters along with an issue and then there is no resolution.

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