- Release date: 1996
- Runtime: 91 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Jason Patric, Thandie Newton, Larry Drake, Sam Waterston ... See all
- Director: John Duigan
- Plot: The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year... Read more
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Chicago Sun-Times
The relationshipbetween Annalees and August could have generated a great deal more tension thanit does, perhaps if August had been made not quite so good, so that he had tostruggle more to do the right thing.
Duigan is an interesting director.
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| Mar 22, 1996San Francisco Chronicle
Overall, the film looks handsome enough.
It's not just the lumbering pace that makes this film a test of patience: An overly reverential tone predominates.
Patric was convincing in his period outing in Walter Hill's ``Geronimo,''
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| Mar 22, 1996Washington Post
August King (Jason Patric), a simple, reliable man, is making his way back home from market when he startles a frightened girl trying to hide herself in a cold mountain stream.
"The Journey of August King" is a steady but steep ascent from the slave-tended bottom lands of North Carolina's river valleys to the moral high ground of her Blue Ridge Mountains.
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| Apr 06, 1996Los Angeles Times
Patric underplays August in a way that limits the emotional payoffs but which seems absolutely in keeping with the character's lifestyle, education and predicament.
And now, with John Duigan's smart and finely detailed adaptation of John Ehle's 1971 novel "The Journey of August King," and a pair of terrific performances from Jason Patric and Thandie Newton, the short list expands to include North Carolina settler August King and slave girl Annalees.
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