Reservation Road
Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo and Academy Award® winners Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino deliver riveting performances in the gripping thriller Reservation Road. A powerful human story of anger, revenge and great courage, this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night. "Suspenseful, emotional and completely engrossing" (Pete Hammond, Maxim), Reservation Road is "a deft, satisfying thriller" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly).
A. Kitman Ho
John Burnham Schwartz
Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly, Mira Sorvino, Elle Fanning, Eddie Alderson, Sean Curley, Antoni Corone, Gary Kohn, John Slattery
© 2007 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Critics Consensus: While the performances are fine, Reservation Road quickly adopts an excessively maudlin tone along with highly improbable plot turns.
Mike D'Angelo
Reservation Road, in its offhanded way, depicts the world of the reasonably affluent 21st-century...
David Fear
Hank Sartin
Kelly Vance
What did we do to deserve these grief-counselor filmmakers? They seem to think they can express so...
Peter Rainer
Three Movie Buffs
Scott Nash
ReelzChannel.com
Heather Huntington
Ultimately devolves into a Crime and Punishment-esque moral exercise, with heavy-handed social com...
Urban Cinefile
Andrew L. Urban
Reservation Road, where the event central to this story takes place, is a symbolic crossroads for...
Would-be screenwriters are advised to catch Reservation Road on cable as it provides an object les...
Heartbreaking melodrama is too heavy for kids.
Parents need to know that this serious melodrama centers on the aftermath of a hit-and-run accident that kills a 10-year-old boy. His parents grieve in a realistic, disturbing-to-watch manner, and the child's lifeless body is shown on the road at least three times. The man responsible for the accident also grieves -- at some points by drinking heavily -- as he comes to grips with what he has done. There's also a confrontation at gunpoint between the two protagonists. With such upsetting themes (as well as strong language, including "f--k"), the film is iffy for kids and young teens.
Genre:Drama, Thriller
Release Date:October 19, 2007
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