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Labor Day (2013)

PG-13 01/30/2014 (KW) Drama 1h 51m

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Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

Jason Reitman

Director, Screenplay
Joyce Maynard

Novel

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Kate Winslet

Adele
Josh Brolin

Frank
Gattlin Griffith

Henry
Tobey Maguire

Adult Henry
Tom Lipinski

Young Frank
Maika Monroe

Mandy
Clark Gregg

Gerald
James Van Der Beek

Officer Treadwell
J.K. Simmons

Mr. Jervis
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A review by Wuchak

8.0

Written by Wuchak on August 21, 2019

Menaced by a fugitive or relishing a Godsend in New Hampshire?

A depressed single woman (Kate Winslet) from New Hampshire is compelled to give a questionable man a ride (Josh Brolin) and allows him to briefly recuperate at her verging-on-rundown house where she lives with her son who’s almost 13 (Gattlin Griffith). How will their Labor Day weekend go? James Van Der Beek has a small role as a cop.

“Labor Day” (2013) is a superb adult-oriented drama with an understated sense of possible menace mixed with a little romance. There are elements of “A Perfect World” (1993), “The Bridges o... read the rest.

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