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Back Roads (2019)

18 04/20/2018 (US) Thriller, Drama, Crime 1h 41m

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A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.

Tawni O'Dell

Novel, Screenplay
Alex Pettyfer

Director
Adrian Lyne

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Alex Pettyfer

Harley Altmyer
Jennifer Morrison

Callie Mercer
Nicola Peltz Beckham

Amber Altmyer
June Carryl

Betty
Juliette Lewis

Bonnie Altmyer
Tom Everett Scott

Brad Mercer
Danika Yarosh

Ashlee
Robert Patrick

Chief Mansour
Sky Elobar

Church
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A review by Wuchak

60%

Written by Wuchak on March 3, 2021

Gloomy and painful drama about a fudged-up family in the Eastern sticks

After a mother (Juliette Lewis) goes to prison for shooting her husband in a backwater town in the Eastern USA, a young man (Alex Pettyfer) has to forsake college and take care of his three younger sisters, including a teenage hellion (Nicola Peltz). Meanwhile a wife who lives down the lane catches his interest (Jennifer Morrison).

"Back Roads" (2018) is a melancholy psychological family drama with a crime element that could be classified as Southern Gothic. While the events take place in Western Pennsylvani... read the rest.

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