Director: Zachary Sluser
Writer: Tom Drury, Zachary Sluser (Screenplay)
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel, John Hawkes, Alia Shawkat, Frank Langella, Ciaran Hinds, Aubrey Plaza
Plot: A bartender comes back to his hometown after his parents die, and finds himself in a dangerous situation involving a mysterious woman and a violent criminal.
Tagline – Destiny can lead to dangerous places.
Runtime: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: The Driftless Area starts as a young man Pierre (Yelchin) gets offered a ride by Shane (Hawkes) before he has an accident, with Pierre taking a pile of money to which he wants to do good with.
As Pierre finds himself in need of rescue, he meets Stella (Deschanel) who offers him the same type of search for love in life, despite her own tragic backstory, while Shane looks to hunt down Pierre to get his money back.
Thoughts on The Driftless Area
Thoughts – The Driftless Area is an odd little movie that will follow a young man that finds a fortune and wants to do the right thing for someone, while seeing good things come his way and the people who stole the money come after him. This is especially interesting because it is one of the few Anton Yelchin movies I hadn’t seen before. He is the lead of what is a great cast that includes Zooey Deschanel, John Hawkes and Frank Langella. The film will use a story that intertwines and at times could come off as confusion, but by the end you will put the pieces together to learn about the bigger picture going on. The locations add to the world we are going in, only with the criminal side of the film seemingly being the slower less interesting side to what is going on.
Final Thoughts – The Driftless Area is an interesting almost mystical crime drama.
