Undertow
The film follows the death of his wife Audrey, John Munn moves with his two sons, mid-teen Chris Munn and adolescent Tim Munn, to a pig farm in rural Drees County, Georgia, where they lead a reclusive life.
20 June 1971, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
19 April 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 September 1931, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
31 October 1963, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
7 December 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 April 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 July 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
March 29, 2016
its marriage of conventional thriller dynamics and unexpected visual potency marks it as something both utterly unique and reliably familiarApril 29, 2009
A tense and entertaining murder thriller about redemption and greed...December 10, 2004
Green's characters often find themselves in raw, unprotected moments, but Undertow also can feel a little too mesmerized by its own junkyard visions.August 07, 2008
The actors grapple manfully with the ersatz rural poetry of the dialogue, but Green's pacing is slow and self-indulgent, and the action often departs from recognizable human behavior.November 19, 2004
Green is all surface and no depth in his effort to channel the late novelist William Faulkner.August 16, 2007
Green's signature pastoral tangents and codeine pacing don't slow down this tale of two boys fleeing their psychotic uncle so much as inappropriately slacken any of the story's suspenseful aspects.November 11, 2004
There's certainly nothing wrong with trying to make a movie visually pleasing, but it shouldn't come until after there's a good plot and intriguing characters.December 09, 2004
The film's first half is hypnotically watchable.September 07, 2010
a drag-down boreDecember 06, 2005
Green's most accessible film to date, yet he keeps his directorial style very close to the way it's always been. Slow, patient, revelatory.March 26, 2009
A deep-fried piece of Southern Gothic that wears its unpleasantness like a merit badge...February 27, 2009
While it has lulls and sleepy moments, Undertow also full of startling truths and beauties, as well as offering a window into a side of the country that movies rarely bother to look at.