In Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, two mothers begin smuggling illegal aliens across the Canadian border by way of the St. Lawrence River. One of them is white American, the other is Native American. The white mother wants to rekindle the...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "Chip Hourihan"
A tip of the reviewer's hat to Sam Zalutsky, the writer/director of You Belong to Me for keeping his thriller short, tight, and remarkably free of clichés that could easily have swamped his tense little story. Yet another drama about...... more »
I like slacker comedies... a lot, actually. You Tell Me is typical of the genre: A gaggle of twentysomethings, relationship crises, obsession over irrelevant minutiae, and no plot to speak of. Here we find three best buds, each dealing with...... more »
Pleasantly patching the lives of five disparate characters, Eric Schaeffer's Mind the Gap is a richly textured study of simple interconnections that weave a provocative emotional terrain without ever veering too far into overly sentimental soap operatic situations. Sam (Eric...... more »
