Synopsis
Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad Cutler ends up caught between his father's archaic principles and trying to do right by his kids, whilst the full force of the law is finally catching up with him.
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Cast
- Michael FassbenderChad Cutler
- Brendan GleesonColby Culter
- Lyndsey MarshalKelly Cutler
- Rory KinnearP.C Lovage
- Sean HarrisGordon 'Worzel Gummidge' Bennett
- Kingsley Ben-AdirSampson
- Gerard KearnsLester
- Tony WayNorman
- Alan WilliamsNoah
- Mark Lewis JonesSergeant Pollock
Recommendations
- 83
The Playlist
While it’s tricky to pin down exactly what Trespass Against Us means to be, it’s easy to enjoy what it actually is. - 80
Screen Daily
Dynamic storytelling and powerful performances bring out the pathos in an unusual tale of conflicting loyalties set on the criminal edges of a travelling community. - 67
IndieWire
It’s a crime drama chewed up by a cheeky sense of humor — or, maybe it’s a quirky comedy set against the miserable campgrounds that lie on the fringes of the criminal underworld. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Smith may have some ways to go as a feature filmmaker, but he has given us a world of such grottily realized depravity that it feels like a story unto itself. - 58
The Film Stage
It’s a so-so affair offering momentary pleasures. - 58
The A.V. Club
Try as its talented cast does to pump some life into these desperate archetypes, it’s impossible not to draw unflattering comparisons with other, better films. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Instead of exploding into crime-clan war, the picture trickles into a kind of shrugging, "it is what it is" look at life on the wrong side of the law. - 50
The New York Times
Though thematically vague, thinly plotted and without a reliably sympathetic soul to cling to, the movie has a mutinous energy and an absurd, knockabout charm.
