The Unforeseen

Name: The Unforeseen
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 29, 2008
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 76

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: February 29, 2008 | Not Rated

Summary: Executive produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, this 2008 Independent Spirit Award winning-documentary tells the story of a Texas real estate developer who enjoys meteoric success until an environmental movement and the S&L crisis threaten to undo his plans. In an era of rising home foreclosures, failing financial institutionsExecutive produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford, this 2008 Independent Spirit Award winning-documentary tells the story of a Texas real estate developer who enjoys meteoric success until an environmental movement and the S&L crisis threaten to undo his plans. In an era of rising home foreclosures, failing financial institutions and profound uncertainty about the future, this film prompts viewers to both reexamine the American Dream as well as their own definitions of what it means to truly grow. [The Cinema Guild]… Expand

Director: Laura Dunn

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Dunn's elegant, full-length debut presents a frightening and powerful argument against the kind of reckless, profit-driven land development that not only threatens natural resources, but life itself. Read full review

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Andrew O'Hehir

One of the most extraordinary accomplishments in recent American nonfiction filmmaking. It hits hard as to facts, and opens its eyes to inexpressible mysteries. It strikes a clear moral and philosophical stance, and then -- as part of that philosophical stance, actually -- reveals its villain as a tragic and sympathetic figure. Read full review

Robert Koehler

Observing locally and thinking globally, Laura Dunn's astonishing debut doc feature The Unforeseen is the kind of transformative viewing experience that has made the current period a golden age for nonfiction film. Read full review

Walter Addiego

What's unforeseen in Unforeseen, a superior documentary by Laura Dunn, are the consequences of a certain mind-set about mankind's relationship to the world and, finally, to itself. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Add The Unforeseen to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that show how humans are screwing up the planet. Read full review

David Edelstein

Hideously depressing but also enraging documentary. Read full review

Ty Burr

The film's case against overdevelopment needs to be, and could be, aggressive, airtight. It should play to the unconverted. Instead, The Unforeseen gives us . . . poetry. Read full review

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