A Country Called Home

I rate this 4 stars just because of Mackenzie Davis's fuckin face. Yes, Imogen Poots is also a gorge baby but yeah. It's the Mackenzie for me.

Very nice, watched at the recommendation of a friend and was pleasantly surprised. Altogether a good movie. Reno was the best addition to the cast of small town Texans.

Time heals the pain! A feel good indie film. I expected a complete drama, probably realistic and nothing more. It was slightly hopping around with different genres. Yeah, there were some fun, though how the tale had begun and how the rest of the narration shaped up was not so blendful. A young woman returns home after learning about her father's sudden death. It was the first visit after many years, especially since her mother's death. She also for the first time meets her grandparents. This trip is a different experience. The short stay extents, and then she meets Reno, a singer who stuck in the plac due to her mother. From there how the rest of the story unfolds is told decently. It had characters, the great ones. The story too, but not all the scenes were so great. Particularly Reno made this film a bit cheerful. Usually indie films are one-off, but I thought they should make another one. Because feels there's more to add to it, like a road trip, followed by the rest of their lifeline in LA. Or maybe a prequel seems good too. If you like drama films, you would enjoy it. But not for everyone. Imogen was good, I liked somebody like her accepted the role. Then Mackenzie Davis and others too were good. Not many people had seen it, for that reason itself, it deserves to be watched. Forget the film critics, just try it and rate it. 7/10

Attempts to reinforce stereotype that rural America is ignorant and backward compared to progressive latte drinking city folk.

exceptional story and great acting

what happens when you decided to come back home to bury your ungrateful father but you find out that there were people in your life that are worth haning on to and new friends who will teach you how to appreciate life again.

It seems like this film wants to be a Texan 'Garden State', but as another reviewer said, it is quite bland. It also doesn't portray Texans in the most flattering light either. Pretty much stereotypical.. hicks, drunks and junkies. Despite a decent cast, the acting also seems a bit stilted. it's as though it was purposefully aiming to look like it was low on budget, even if it wasn't. Mediocre.

I liked this movie, albeit a bit slow at times. It is sort of Indy in feel. Imogen Poots does a pretty good job with the character.

a cinematic masterpiece, very touching, perfect pacing, great direction, great script, great casting, great cinematography, good score. Constantly unpredictable but believable script presents in a thoroughly sympathetic way the troubled family lives of its exclusively lower class characters in its stark flat and parched Texas plains landscape, which comes through as hauntingly ordinary or even dull as the characters themselves are. Even if the people seem lost and wandering almost aimlessly through their lives, this highly artful and constantly engaging film is anything but aimless for sensitive viewers, but there won't be a big audience for it, except for the star, Imogen Poots, an extraordinarily gifted actor whose beautiful face and engagingly warm smile will rivet the attention even of many viewers who aren't attuned to cinematic art but only to superficial appeals. This is her first role as a film's central character, and she lights it up as a major star, perfectly cast for the part, even though with high physical attractiveness that's not really needed for the role -- but which probably will be for many of the future ones she'll play. This British actress plays very convincingly a small-town Texas young woman who is returning briefly to her childhood home to pay respects to the memory of her just-deceased alcoholic father. It's a performance that would be alien to the performer if she weren't a consummate actress --- which she apparently is. But the real star here is the film's brilliantly gifted director, co-scriptwriter, Anna Axster -- a great director, who is worth following.

good guitar score, Bingham.. poots shines.