Synopsis
After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
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Cast
- Josh DuhamelAlex
- Maria BelloMartha
- Laura DernAnnie
- Katrina NormanKerry
- Lucas TillJosh Harvest
- Tom Everett ScottJim
- Jae HeadTony
- Shamier AndersonBrandon
- Adam HurtigDance Judge
- Paul EssiembrePrincipal
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
Aside from a showy opening (a tracking shot that snakes through a club, cribbing freely from Carlito's Way, Boogie Nights, etc.), the movie satisfies mainly due to its affecting ensemble and considerable emotional intelligence. - 70
The Dissolve
What’s best about the film is its willingness to go deep, its strange yet effective fluidity between serious scenes and dance numbers, and Duran’s grace with weighty subjects. - 63
RogerEbert.com
Older audiences are likely to find the film less amusing than risible. - 50
Movie Nation
Whatever its intent, Bravetown stumbles through a steady supply of contrivances designed to make the budget work and the storylines overlap. - 38
Slant Magazine
The filmmakers attempt to acknowledge the pain of warfare within the framework of a redemptive story that lends it an unforgivably patronizing sense of closure. - 30
Los Angeles Times
First-time director Daniel Duran, working from a screenplay by Oscar Torres that abounds in the maudlin and risible, isn't able to lift the ham-handed material to a place where it might ring true. - 30
The New York Times
Bravetown, directed by Daniel Duran from a screenplay by Oscar Orlando Torres, can sometimes drown in its own tears. - 30
Arizona Republic
There is nothing brave about Bravetown, a film so paint-by-the-numbers bland that its efforts to piggyback the sacrifice of American servicemen and women for emotional depth is downright craven.
