Briar Patch (film)
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{{Infobox film
| name = Briar Patch
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| writer = Deborah Pryor
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| music = Nathan Barr
| cinematography = Scot Kevan
| editing = Martin Apelbaum
Wayde Faust
Eric Strand
| studio = Down Home Entertainment
Tonic Films
| director = Zev Berman
| producer = Sam Froelich
Andrea Magder
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| released = {{Film date|2002|04||United States}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
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Briar Patch (alternatively titled Plain Dirty) is a 2002 American romantic thriller drama film directed by Zev Berman, starring Dominique Swain, Henry Thomas, Arie Verveen, James Urbaniak and Karen Allen.{{cite web |url= https://www.proquest.com/docview/223903814|title= Plain Dirty|last= McClain|first= Buzz|date= 29 March 2004|website= Video Business|publisher= |access-date= 29 September 2023|quote=}}
Cast
- Dominique Swain as Inez Macbeth
- Henry Thomas as Edgar Macbeth
- Arie Verveen as Flowers
- James Urbaniak as Druden Hunt
- Karen Allen as Butcher Lee
- Debra Monk as Officer Avon
- Blake Lindsley as Raeburn
Reception
Contactmusic.com gave the film a rating of 2/5 wrote, "This boring melodrama has little going for it, proving once again that no one will ever give Swain the chance to appear in a movie that doesn't suck out loud."{{cite web |url= https://www.contactmusic.com/amp/2153499|title= Plain Dirty|last= |first= |date= 1 November 2005|website= Contactmusic.com|publisher= |access-date= 29 September 2023|quote=}}
Film Threat wrote that the film is "so bleak that it actually fails to satisfy, and sympathy is hard to come by for any of the characters, let alone Inez."{{cite web |url= https://filmthreat.com/uncategorized/briar-patch-2/|title= BRIAR PATCH|last= |first= |date= 5 May 2004|website= Film Threat|publisher= |access-date= 29 September 2023|quote=}}
Scott Foundas of Variety called the film a "Southern Gothic melodrama so deep-fried you can just about feel your arteries hardening", and wrote that it "might have worked as a rollicking Tennessee Williams send-up, if only the filmmakers weren’t so unwaveringly straight-faced."{{cite web |url= https://variety.com/2003/film/reviews/briar-patch-2-1200543396/|title= Briar Patch|last= Foundas|first= Scott|date= 18 February 2003|website= Variety|publisher= |access-date= 29 September 2023|quote=}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0220343|Briar Patch}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|plain_dirty|Plain Dirty}}