This Is Where We Live

Name: This Is Where We Live
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: November 22, 2013
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 59

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| Release Date: November 22, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: In the Texas Hill Country, Diane Sutton, while ignoring her own health issues, takes care of her son August, who has cerebral palsy, and her husband, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Overburdened, she hires Noah, a local handyman, to build a wheelchair ramp up the front steps to the family home. While he's working, Noah strikes upIn the Texas Hill Country, Diane Sutton, while ignoring her own health issues, takes care of her son August, who has cerebral palsy, and her husband, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Overburdened, she hires Noah, a local handyman, to build a wheelchair ramp up the front steps to the family home. While he's working, Noah strikes up a friendship with August causing a ripple effect in the lives of the Suttons and himself.… Expand

Director: Josh Barrett and Marc Menchaca

Genre(s): Drama, Family

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Frank Scheck

Nov 21, 2013

Beautifully acted by the largely unknown cast, This is Where We Live is as reticent as its characters, its emotions emerging as much from what’s unsaid as expressed. Its admirably understated approach infuses what could have been an all too predictable, feel good drama with an intriguing complexity. Read full review

McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Moore

Nov 12, 2013

For all its sure-handed sense of place, its occasional grace notes of loss, grief and misery, This is Where We Live fails to seize and break our hearts, keeping its glum characters at arm’s length and doling out “hope” in tiny, cloying teaspoon-size servings. Read full review

Zachary Wigon

Nov 21, 2013

Often threatening sentimentality yet never quite sinking into it, Josh Barrett and Marc Menchaca's This Is Where We Live benefits from the good taste of the filmmakers, whose appetite for understatement ensures that the picture maintains dramatic effectiveness and only rarely lurches into histrionics. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Nov 21, 2013

Though the developing bond between the two men — one of whom is virtually nonverbal — is credible and even touching, the storytelling is too oblique to reel you in. Read full review

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