Big Stone Gap

2014

Action / Comedy / Family / Mystery / Romance

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 54% · 20 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 54% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 3460 3.5K

woman director

Plot summary

A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.

Director

Adriana Trigiani Photo
Adriana Trigiani

Top cast

Mary Deese Photo
Mary Deese as Dr. Miranda
Patrick Wilson Photo
Patrick Wilson as Jack MacChesney
John Benjamin Hickey Photo
John Benjamin Hickey as Theodore Tipton
Mary Pat Gleason Photo
Mary Pat Gleason as Alice Lambert
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
749.21 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds ...
1.56 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ops-52535 5 / 10

mediocre lifes in a mediocre film

Well, it has some cudling moments for the ones who likes to lugh and cry when watching movie, and especially the last will hit a high score. but what we missed, my wife and i, was the true sting to the plot of the story. actually, there are really nothing groundbreaking and unique about this film. the acting are good, and the cast tries to make a beautiful impression, but the jumping jack flashy-feeling are missing here and youll never really '' find that lovly feelin' ''. it would have been a lot more interesting if she left looking for her father.....its based on a novel, a fine one for sure, but adapting the story into a screenplay are difficult and in this instance i feel the glitch-factor alot. the time line and fast shifting environments and rather awkward editing and direction , makes it hard to follow and rend into the storyits not a rewatch for me , and the grumpy old mans wife does just barely recommend it.
Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 5 / 10

lacks authenticity

It's 1978. Big Stone Gap is a coal mining town in the mountains of Virginia. Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) is the 40 year old spinster who runs her late mean-spirited father's pharmacy. After her mother's death, she gets a letter from her revealing her real Italian biological father. She has a longtime love of quiet miner Jack MacChesney (Patrick Wilson) but gold-digging divorcee Sweet Sue Tinsley (Jane Krakowski) has set her sights on him. Fleeta Mullins (Whoopi Goldberg) is her one employee.This is a lot of Hollywood types trying to play hillbillies. It's a wacky artistic group with too many lacking the prerequisite red necks. Judd and Wilson can pass for photogenic country folk but there are too many other wacky coasters. Elfman and Goldberg don't fit. This lacks the authenticity of a 70's coal mining town. Even poor Pearl Grimes' family has a nice house. The coal mining has no realism. It's a bunch of guys with hand shovels. I do like the actors and characters overall. Judd and Wilson are an appealing romantic pairing. It's not quite enough to overcome the lack of a ramshackle setting or believable town folks. have been more intensity but Fry is good.
Read more IMDb reviews

1 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment