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Review -Road to nowhere full movie hd
There's a murky, tenuous balance between reality and fiction...particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide. A passionate filmmake... read more read more...r creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth.
From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
Filmed mostly in winter, in browns, grays and soiled whites, "Sleepwalking" sustains a mood of unrelenting bleakness, wearing its aesthetic of desolation like a badge of integrity. Integrity and quality, unfortunately, are not synonymous. "Sleepwalking" may linger in downscale territory where few movies even indies dare to tread, but it has far too many flaws to make it a likely candidate for awards consideration. And isn't that kind of recognition the only commercial hope for gloomy kitchen-sink dramas?
Set in northern California and Utah but filmed in Saskatchewan, the movie, directed by William Maher from a screenplay by Zac Stanford ("The Chumscrubber"), evokes a depressed environment of ugly, cramped apartments and flimsy shacks, junk furniture, muddy backyards and chain-link fences. As its characters eke out a marginal existence, they are defined by this oppressive milieu. When they break the rules, the police, social service agencies and debt collectors are poised to crush whatever hopes they have left. As the song says, "Them that's got shall get/Them that's not shall lose."
How is an 11-year-old girl brought up in such conditions to find a better life? That's a question Tara Reedy (AnnaSophia Robb) hardly dares ask. As the film begins she and her reckless, slatternly mother, Joleen (Charlize Theron), have been evicted from the house where they were staying with Joleen's latest boyfriend, who was busted for growing marijuana. Tara has no choice but to trail along glumly as Joleen is reduced to begging her meek, ne'er-do-well younger brother, James (Nick Stahl), to take them in.
No sooner have they moved into James's dingy apartment than Joleen runs off with a truck driver, leaving Tara with her uncle, who works on a road-building crew. After missing one too many days on the job, he is fired. He and Tara end up crashing in the basement of his married best friend, Randall (Woody Harrelson). It isn't long before Tara lands in a foster home.
In a last-ditch effort to put down roots, James snatches Tara from foster care, packs them into a car and drives to the childhood home he and Joleen fled many years earlier. The scenes of James and Tara, who agree to pose as father and daughter, developing a familial bond while on the road give the movie its only glimmer of sweetness. Once they arrive at the Reedy homestead a run-down cattle and horse farm that is an American gothic house of horrors they are immediately put to work as unpaid slave labor by the monstrous paterfamilias (Dennis Hopper).
