A Dark Place
{{Infobox film
| name = A Dark Place
| image = Steel_country.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Film poster
| director = Simon Fellows
| producer = Mark Williams
Tai Duncan
Gareth Ellis-Unwin
Leon Clarance
| writer = Brendan Higgins
| story =
| starring = Andrew Scott
Bronagh Waugh
Denise Gough
| music = John Hardy Music
| cinematography = Marcel Zyskind
| editing = Chris Dickens
David Arshadi
| studio =
| distributor = Shout! Studios
| released = {{Film date|2019|4|19|ref1=}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = United States
United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
A Dark Place (also titled Steel Country) is a 2019 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Simon Fellows and starring Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough.
Plot
When a local boy goes missing, Donald Devlin (Andrew Scott), a small-town sanitation worker on the autism spectrum, dives headlong into the mystery in an attempt to solve it.
Cast
- Andrew Scott as Donald Devlin
- Bronagh Waugh as Donna Reutzel
- Denise Gough as Linda Connolly
- Michael Rose as Sheriff Benjamin Mooney
- Christa Bell Campbell as Wendy Connolly
- Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Betty Devlin
- Andrew Massett as Dr. Joel Pomorski
- Griff Furst as Max Himmler
- Jason Davis as Jerry Zeigler
- Kate Forbes as Patty Zeigler
- Cory Scott Allen as Randy Helsel
Reception
The film has 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_dark_place|title=A Dark Place|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango|access-date={{RT data|access date|df=dmy}}}}
Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars.{{cite web|last=Henderson|first=Odie|title=A Dark Place|date=12 April 2019|publisher=RogerEbert.com|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-dark-place-2019|accessdate=8 November 2020}} Ben Travis of Empire awarded the film three stars out of five.{{cite web|last=Travis|first=Ben|title=Steel Country Review|date=18 April 2019|publisher=Empire|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/steel-country-review/|accessdate=8 November 2020}} Stephen Carty of Radio Times also awarded the film three stars out of five.{{cite web|last=Carty|first=Stephen|title=Steel Country|publisher=Radio Times|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/film/gvj54s/steel-country/|accessdate=8 November 2020}}
Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable."{{cite web|last=Harvey|first=Dennis|title=Film Review: 'A Dark Place'|date=8 April 2019|publisher=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/a-dark-place-review-1203180038/|accessdate=8 November 2020}} Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Scott's strong, startling performance is the most effective element of Simon Fellows' offbeat crime thriller."{{cite web|last=Scheck|first=Frank|title='A Dark Place': Film Review|date=10 April 2019|publisher=The Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/a-dark-place-1201006|accessdate=8 November 2020}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|5936866}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|a_dark_place}}
{{Simon Fellows}}
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Category:2010s mystery thriller films
Category:British mystery thriller films
Category:American mystery thriller films
Category:2010s English-language films