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2009 Certificate 15
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Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic .. Read more

Starring Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, John Robinson
Director Kelly Reichardt
Genres Drama

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Wendy and Lucy

Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy.

Starring Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, John Robinson, Wally Dalton, Larry Fessenden, Brenna Beardsley, Ayanna Berkshire, M. Blash, John Breen
Director Kelly Reichardt
Studio SODA POP
Run time DVD: 1 hr 20 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Released DVD: 29 Jun 2009
Production year: 2009
Format DVD

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  • Maybe the best American film not to get any Oscar credit this year, Kelly Reichardt’s follow-up to Old Joy is a simple, poignant movie that will resonate as tough economic times cut deeper. read more »

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  • 16 out of 16 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    what was the point ?

    I was looking forward to this film as I like the leading actress. But the film failed to have any point, ended abruptly and I felt really cheated out of an hour and a half of my life. A beautifully shot and well acted piece of work but I did not see what it was trying to say.

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      • Posted 09 Jul 2009 10:34

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Arch-Americana: road movie meets Littlest Hobo

    This is a movie to divide opinion. Short, virtually plotless and in essence quite saccharine, yet managing to distil some archetypally all-American themes. There's a 'drifter', a dog, a one-horse-town, 'the road', a jumped-up small time store clerk and a sagely totemic old man (who even manages to look slightly like Sitting Bull in a uniform).

    It may not go anywhere... but it looks pretty doing it. Its conclusion might be obvious, but it's not unsatisfying.

    Go on... it's only 75 minutes of your life, after all.

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    Maybe the best American film not to get any Oscar credit this year, Kelly Reichardt’s follow-up to Old Joy is a simple, poignant movie that will resonate as tough economic times cut deeper. It’s not what you would call a starry performance, but Michelle Williams is superb as Wendy, a young woman driving up to Alaska in search of work. Her car breaks down several hundreds of miles short in a thoroughly unexceptional Oregon town. She’s down to her last few bucks and Lucy is... Read more

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