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God's Pocket

2014

John Slattery

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks, John Turturro ...

5.6

2,092

Drama When Mickey's stepson Leon is killed in a construction "accident," Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when the boy's mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck between a body he can’t bury, a wife he can’t please, and a debt he can’t pay.

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Chang Variety	"Actor John Slattery makes a wobbly transition into feature filmmaking with this drab and uninvolving dark comedy."
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] only partly succeeds in its aim to derive outrageous humor from its hardscrabble setting, ultimately playing like a movie by the Coen Brothers directed with one arm tied behind their backs."
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Neither a Scorsesian slice of life nor a social satire, this infuriating movie adds up to almost nothing."
		Joe Neumaier New York Daily News	"Many pleasures in 'God's Pocket' come from the interplay between characters too wise to tell the truth but too proud to shut their yaps. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Rex Reed The New York Observer	"There's nothing remarkable or even remotely intriguing (...) [A] dull, flat fiasco. (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"

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