Canada, United States · 2021
1h 48m
Director Lindsay Gossling
Starring Trace Adkins, Thora Birch, Peter Facinelli, Anne Heche
Genre Drama, Thriller
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Four families in a Heartland town are tested in a single day when a tornado hits, forcing paths to cross and redefining the meaning of survival.
The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
Gossling populates this little town with so many horrible people that you assume the tornadoes are coming to purge them from society. It’s therefore somewhat jarring when she lets impending tragedy provide them redemption instead.
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The production values are a bit too pedestrian to elevate this much above the ordinary.
Written and directed with an overload of talent by Lindsay Gossling, it rarely falters and leaves a viewer grateful for a whirlwind of character-driven suspense and humanity instead of the usual Hollywood cliches.
For an emotionally-grounded disaster movie, I found it a harrowing recreation of the real thing, emotionally affecting and not bad. Not bad at all.
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