Synopsis
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.
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Cast
- Andrew ScottDonald Devlin
- Bronagh WaughDonna Reutzel
- Denise GoughLinda Connolly
- Michael RoseSheriff Benjamin Mooney
- Sandra Ellis LaffertyBetty Devlin
- Christa Beth CampbellWendy Connelly
- Eric MendenhallBill Frankel
- Andrew MassetDr. Joel Pomorowski
- Christian FinlaysonJustin Zeigler
- Kate ForbesPatty Zeigler
Recommendations
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Movie Nation
Donnie is a most unusual character to serve as our tour guide to “A Dark Place.” British character actor Andrew Scott (“Spectre,””Pride” and TV’s Moriarty in “Sherlock”) utterly immerses himself in this “town weirdo” character who becomes obsessed with a little boy on his route who disappears, and then is found drowned in a local creek. - 60
Variety
The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
But it's Scott who fully carries the film, helping us overlook the story's contrivances with his moving and intense performance as a character who is as far removed from Professor Moriarty as you can get. - 50
Los Angeles Times
A Dark Place is earnest enough, but it comes across as phony. It’s hard to do a “local color” drama when everyone’s from out of town. - 50
Film Threat
Screenplays like A Dark Place only get made because they’re familiar. They present intrigue and drama in a way that doesn’t challenge the audience but reinforces their belief of what a movie like this should be. This conformist methodology might make the movie palatable—and marketable—but it doesn’t make it any good. - 40
The Telegraph
It’s a bungled business, making obvious errors of staging. - 40
The Observer (UK)
Unfortunately, Scott is the most persuasive element in a film that is atmospherically photographed by Marcel Zyskind but let down by a clueless screenplay which borders, at times, on the risible. - 20
The Guardian
The Fleabag star’s detailed performance in this missing-child thriller makes its myriad implausibilities all the more dismaying.
