2019 American film
A Dark Place (also titled Steel Country)[1] is a 2019 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Simon Fellows and starring Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough.
Plot
When a local boy goes missing, Donald Devlin (Andrew Scott), a small-town sanitation worker on the autism spectrum, dives headlong into the mystery in an attempt to solve it.
Cast
- Andrew Scott as Donald Devlin
- Bronagh Waugh as Donna Reutzel
- Denise Gough as Linda Connolly
- Michael Rose as Sheriff Benjamin Mooney
- Christa Bell Campbell as Wendy Connolly
- Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Betty Devlin
- Andrew Massett as Dr. Joel Pomorski
- Griff Furst as Max Himmler
- Jason Davis as Jerry Zeigler
- Kate Forbes as Patty Zeigler
- Cory Scott Allen as Randy Helsel
Reception
The film has 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]
Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars.[3] Ben Travis of Empire awarded the film three stars out of five.[1] Stephen Carty of Radio Times also awarded the film three stars out of five.[4]
Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable."[5] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Scott's strong, startling performance is the most effective element of Simon Fellows' offbeat crime thriller."[6]
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