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Dominican Rep. River of Grass
- Original title
- River of Grass
- Year
- 1994
- Running time
- 75 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Larry Fessenden- Dick Russell
Michael Buscemi- Lisa Bowman
- Santo Fazio
- Sheila Korsi
- Mitch Lewis
- Steven Lezak
- Greg Schroede
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Crime. Road Movie. Independent Film (US)
- Synopsis
- River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol, and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way. However, they don't manage to get very far; indeed, the film's central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality. This well-received, low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida, placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls, barren highways and overgrown, swampy fields; the title is another name for the Florida Everglades.
- Awards
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1994: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize1995: Independent Spirit Awards: 4 Nominations including Best First Feature
- Critics' reviews
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"Stylized in the manner of 'Badlands' with a flat voice-over from the film's dullard female lead, River of Grass is a meandering and ultimately uninvolving film"
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