Synopsis
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair begin to forge an unexpected bond.
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Cast
- Jennifer LawrenceLynsey
- Brian Tyree HenryJames
- Linda EmondGloria
- Jayne HoudyshellSharon
- Stephen McKinley HendersonDr. Lucas
- Russell HarvardJustin
- Sean CarvajalSantiago
- Frederick WellerRick
- Will PullenBro
- Neal HuffNeuropsychologist
Recommendations
- 80
The Telegraph
Causeway is an excellent, moving, determinedly low-key slice of US indie cinema. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
It's nice to see actors like these do such subtle, sympathetic work for a gifted young director — and to find an outlet for storytelling that doesn't demand neat redemption, but still allows for grace. - 75
The Playlist
The double character piece excels most when Neugebauer does her thing and facilitates her actors. Together, they build a pair of utterly real people, nonetheless confined to a dramatic universe more prone to contrivance. But the pleasures of the former generally outweigh the irksomeness of the latter, with Lawrence and costar Brian Tyree Henry joined in as a super-generator of onscreen magnetism. - 75
Collider
Like the relationship between Lynsey and James, Causeway is a film that slowly grows on you, a film that puts on a tough front—with its devastated characters and desire for escape—yet at its center is a tremendous about of heart, love, with its found families and shared pain. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It’s a small-scale film that many might call unambitious, favoring delicate observation over big emotional payoff. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Lawrence and Henry have a warm, natural chemistry, and that rapport really seems to guide where the movie ends up, instead of the other way around. - 67
IndieWire
This could all feel schematic in lesser hands, but Neugebauer gives Lawrence and Henry the space they need to make the film’s characters feel like real people. As a result, the inevitable glimmer of hope they share at the end is as honest as the hurt that guided them to it. - 60
Variety
Causeway is a drama of redemption that’s both touching and a little arduous. Just because your characters are suffering doesn’t mean they have to mostly stop talking.
