Undertow

***** Spoiler Alert ***** One of the worst movies I've ever seen. The opening sequence was good (which is why it deserved 1 point instead of 0) but it ran out of steam after about 20 minutes. After another 40... Full review

Director David Gordon Green's critically acclaimed Undertow is a strange but gripping experience. I don't know any other film quite like this. We've seen the slow pacing build up tension in the plot before in films, but it's so much... Full review

David Gordon Green's third film is more conventionally plotted than his previous "All the Pretty Girls" but it has his very distinctive earthy and poetic style that makes the film dreamy and beautiful without being "pretty-pretty". Based on the real... Full review

Taking a pop-culture icon and flipping it on its head is a favorite pastime of young film directors. In 1986 David Lynch took his boy-scout memories and essentially, in his own words, sent "The Hardy Boys" to hell with "Blue... Full review

UNDERTOW is a perplexing film, one that seems like it could be a superb atmospheric contemplation of poverty and its consequences in the back roads of the South, but ends in a prolonged ennui that suggests that a growing director... Full review

I recently saw this film after seeing Green's George Washington. While that film was interesting it wasn't fantastic...Undertow is fantastic and more. The plot is simple enough, just a story about two boys and their father living in the backwoods... Full review

John (Dermot Mulroney) is a single father living in backwoods Georgia with his two sons, teenaged Chris (Jamie Bell) and younger Tim (Devon Alan). Their quiet and routine lives are disrupted with the arrival of Deel (Josh Lucas), John's estranged... Full review

I watched Undertow at the Stockholm International Film Festival in November 2004. I had previously heard nothing about the film and it was more or less a coincidence that made med watch it. It was a pleasant experience though.Undertow is... Full review

In Undertow, the third film by David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls), two young brothers, Tim (Devon Allen) and Chris (Jamie Bell), flee their home in rural Georgia after their father (Dermot Mulroney) is murdered by his... Full review

A teenage boy smashes his would be girlfriend's window and gets chased by the cops. He leaps out of a barn and lands on a plank driving a long nail through his foot – but surprises us by keeping on... Full review

UNDERTOW Rated:R For movie details, please click here . Lucas, a hunk if there ever was one, is also properly scary as the homicidal uncle, but he's been playing so many psychotic creeps these days, maybe he should think about a nice frat-boy comedy for a change. ... Full Review

I expect most people will share the impression that it's a good little movie that consistently comes up a wee bit short. But "Undertow" might be too logistically challenging an effort by Green ("George Washington," "All the Real Girls"), who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Conway and who has received a lot of praise that seems more appropriate to his reach than to his grasp. ... Full Review

Undertow , Green's new film, opens with a sequence that's at once visceral and baffling. Green, it turns out, has made an art film posing as a backwoods gothic thriller. ... Full Review

There's a timeless storybook quality to the film that lingers beautifully from start to finish--it sometimes feels like a violent 1970s thriller, even though it harks back to a 1950s classic and features up-to-date relational issues. Lucas and Mulroney are strong as well--they look so much like brothers that it's almost creepy, especially in the way they interact with each other. ... Full Review

If this sounds as much like a Brothers Grimm tale as a plot, that is the intention of David Gordon Green , the gifted director of " Undertow . I sense a poetic merging of realism and surrealism; every detail is founded on fact and accurate observation, but the effect appeals to our instinct for the mythological. ... Full Review

Dermot Mulroney in 'Undertow.'(United Artists) 11/24/2004 Undertow *** (R: 1:47): If you visited drive-in movie theaters in the 1970s, you might have seen such low-budget hillbilly thrillers as "Macon County Line" and "Walking Tall." ... Full Article

Plot The quiet life of single dad John Munn (Mulroney) is disturbed when his brother Deel (Lucas) arrives at his farm in search of the gold coins their father owned. ... Full Article

''Undertow," a slice of Southern gothic about two brothers running through the Georgia backwoods from their crazy uncle, is the third movie from David Gordon Green, the director, most recently, of last year's ''All the Real Girls." It's an exercise ... Full Article

Ten-year-old Tim (Devon Alan) eats paint.You dont know this right away. At first he just looks pale and sickly, another skinny boy living in a movie version of rural Georgia, this time on a perpetually muddy pig farm in... ... Full Article

David Gordon Green's "Undertow" opens the same way his beautiful "All the Real Girls" did, with two teens in love gazing at each other and sharing whispered conversation. ... Full Article