October Country

Name: October Country
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 12, 2010
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 66

2010

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Release Date: February 12, 2010

Summary: Every family has its ghosts. The Mosher family has more than most. Shot over a year from one Halloween to the next, the film creates a stunning cinematic portrait of a family who are unique but also sadly representative of the struggles of America's working class. The film was created to be both a universal story of family struggle and aEvery family has its ghosts. The Mosher family has more than most. Shot over a year from one Halloween to the next, the film creates a stunning cinematic portrait of a family who are unique but also sadly representative of the struggles of America's working class. The film was created to be both a universal story of family struggle and a socially conscious portrait of compelling, articulate individuals grappling with the forces that tear at their homes and relationships. (Wishbone Films)… Expand

Director: Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 80 min

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Kevin B. Lee

Jersey Shore may be the hyped example of trashy onscreen “reality,” but this portrait of an upstate working-poor family forsakes guilty-pleasure exploitation and simply wows you in every other way. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Manages to excavate enough universal pathos from the mundane to find something truly extraordinary in the ordinary. Read full review

Kyle Smith

October Country doesn't really have a point, or a story, but it's an almost unbearably vivid portrait of four generations in a single working-class family. Read full review

J.R. Jones

There's rancor here, but also unexpected tenderness. Read full review

Noel Murray

In digging deeper into the stories behind the junk--many of which involve the drug problems, legal problems, custody battles, cycles of abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorders of Mosher’s own family--October Country veers awfully close to exploitation. Read full review

Janice Page

What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in. Read full review

Andrew Barker

A feel-bad film through and through. Chronicling a year in the life of a low-income Mohawk Valley family beset by external hardships and shockingly bad decision-making, the docu straddles the line between unflinching intimacy and invasive exploitation. Read full review

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