| Release Date | Feb 12, 2010 |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| Summary | Every family has its ghosts. The Mosher family has more than most. Shot over a year from one Halloween to the next, the film creates a stunning cinematic portrait of a family who are unique but also sadly representative of the struggles of America's working class. The film was created to be both a universal story of family struggle and a socially conscious portrait of compelling, articulate individuals grappling with the forces that tear at their homes and relationships. (Wishbone Films) |
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 Jersey Shore may be the hyped example of trashy onscreen “reality,� but this portrait of an upstate working-poor family forsakes guilty-pleasure exploitation and simply wows you in every other way.
Feb 10, 2010
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 With the nation’s unemployment rate hovering around 10% and home foreclosure numbers stubbornly high, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s haunting documentary of multigenerational troubles is either a case of great timing or, possibly, the worst timing ever.
Feb 09, 2010
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There's a distinctively, and hauntingly, dehumanizing quality about the graphic approach of October Country.
Feb 09, 2010
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A feel-bad film through and through. Chronicling a year in the life of a low-income Mohawk Valley family beset by external hardships and shockingly bad decision-making, the docu straddles the line between unflinching intimacy and invasive exploitation.
Feb 09, 2010
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October Country feels at once personal and objective, a fascinating hybrid of two important tendencies in the modern documentary.
Feb 12, 2010
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Best understood as a work of creative nonfiction. The directors employ art-film techniques to aestheticize a swamp of big issues--the military, poverty, madness, family planning, spousal and child abuse--and give a family's (and America's) angst a clear voice and seductive form without leveling judgment.
Feb 10, 2010
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In digging deeper into the stories behind the junk--many of which involve the drug problems, legal problems, custody battles, cycles of abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorders of Mosher’s own family--October Country veers awfully close to exploitation.
Feb 12, 2010
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Family dysfunction has proved a rich resource for documentary filmmakers in recent years, but "October" lacks the narrative drive and emotional resonance of such examples of the genre as "Tarnation" and "Capturing the Friedmans."
Feb 14, 2010
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October Country doesn't really have a point, or a story, but it's an almost unbearably vivid portrait of four generations in a single working-class family.
Feb 13, 2010
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What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in.
May 14, 2010
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| Genres | Documentary, Education, General Interest |
| Stars | The Mosher Family |
| Director | Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher |
| Writers | Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher |
| Studio | Wishbone Films |
| Review Count | 13 |
| Positive | 8 |
| Negative | 5 |
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