In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total
Trenton Perez
- White Kid
- (as Trenton Ryan Perez)
Maureen Brennan
- Mrs. Kittredge
- (as Maureen A. Brennan)
James Landry Hébert
- Eugene
- (as James Hébert)
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- TriviaInspired by a series of long-unsolved murders of young women occurring for decades along an interstate south of Houston, in a rural area that became known as the "killing fields." Since the release of this film, several of the murders have been solved, with four connected to William Lewis Reece.
- GoofsLiquor is shown for sale inside a convenience store. While this is legal in the filming location in Louisiana, it's not legal in the state of Texas.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #2.14 (2011)
- SoundtracksLook on Down from the Bridge
Written by David Roback and Hope Sandoval
Performed by Mazzy Star
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
Featured review
A modest, if unspectacular low-key offbeat crime thriller that seems to focus on its bleak noir atmospherics and rustic sense of place (being filmed in New Orleans creating such an alienating environment from its bayous), and less so on its moody characters and narrative depth of its investigation. Things just seem to happen, with little to no reasoning behind it. Conventional storytelling enlivened by its edgy moments of suspense. Texas cop Mike Souder is paired up with out-of-town New York detective Brian Heigh where they're dealing with a local murder, but Heigh finds himself looking into another case involving a serial killer who murders his lady victims in the killing fields a wasteland outside Texas City. Director Ami Canaan Mann (yep the daughter of Michael Mann) in her debut feature creates a slick look with her prowling camera and gets strong performances from the likes of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Worthington, Chloe Grace Moretz and Jessica Chastain. Even the minor support give fine turns; Sheryl Lee, James Herbert and an unsettling Stephen Graham. However it's the four main leads that really carry this. Morgan's turn as the New York copper is the film's heart and conscience, but that's not taking anything away from Worthington and Chastain. Worthington probably gives the best performance of his career as the hard-bitten Texan detective and Chastain really does hold her own as a fellow officer. However it's Moretz who really surprises in a tender, but spirited performance as the street kid of the town tramp. She's definitely a talent. You can't take anything away from the cast, as they don't limit themselves to the material's shortcomings. The story is supposedly inspired by true events, but never does it go into any great detail and this can be its downfall. As what transpires can feel forced and rushed leading to something predictably anti-climatic due to the red herrings being too obvious. Still Mann keeps you interested with her technical techniques, but also giving it a contemplatively humane touch amongst its slow pace and brooding circumstances. A fair, if compelling straight-to-DVD enterprise.
"You don't know how close to the edge you are".
"You don't know how close to the edge you are".
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $45,469
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,772
- Oct 16, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $1,271,319
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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