Movie Title : October Country Release Date : Oct 19, 2009 Wide Genre Movie :Documentary,Special Interest
Mpaa Rating : Unrated
Actors :Dottie Mosher,Don Mosher,Denise,Donna,Daneal,Desi,Ruby,Chris
A family struggles to stay together despite a long and troubling history of emotional trauma in this visually striking documentary. When asked about his family, Don Mosher tells an interviewer, "We wouldn't know normal if it fell on us." The line is more than just a self-depreciating joke as we spend a year with the Moshers, who live in a decaying rural community in New York State. Don is a Vietnam veteran who is still dealing with the emotional scars of war and is either withdrawn or sharply judgmental around his family. His wife, Dottie, tries to put a positive spin on the grim circumstances of her life, but sometimes her desire to nurture those around her causes more problems, including taking in a foster son who turns to a life of crime. Their daughter, Donna, was a reckless youth who became a teenage mother and found herself married to an abusive husband. Donna's daughter Daneal followed the same path as her mother and is now a teenage mother herself, raising a child on her own after the father abandoned her. Donna's younger daughter, Desi, is a clever and intelligent girl who seems unusually aware of the world around her for a child her age. And Don's estranged sister, Denise, has turned her back on the family and instead studies witchcraft with a group of Wiccans who regularly gather in a nearby graveyard. Donal Mosher is a photographer and filmmaker who is a member of the Mosher family, and with their cooperation, he and co-director Michael Palmieri followed them from one October to the next as they struggled with their demons while clinging to family bonds that give them strength. October Country was the grand prize winner at the 2009 Silverdocs Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Eventually you wonder whether the capacity to accept and forgive is a virtue or part of what's holding the Moshers down.J. R. Jones-Chicago Reader
The beauty of October Country, beside its artful images, is how it compresses the windblown fortunes of working-class America into the fallen leaves of one forlorn family.
Joe Williams-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
You can probably extract a sociological or political message from the film, but I don't think that was the intention. This lack of an agenda seems to add to the movie's intensity.
Walter V. Addiego-San Francisco Chronicle
Too often, the camera is angling to be the star.
Janice Page-Boston Globe
A powerful portrait of the American working poor and the dynamics that govern all families, regardless of economic class.
Michael O'Sullivan-Washington Post
Unlike similar yet superior films like Capturing the Friedmans, October Country has no mysteries to probe or revelations to share.
Jeff Shannon-Seattle Times
[An] intensely raw, empathetic non-fiction portrait.
Nick Schager-Lessons of Darkness
Sometimes ghosts don't have to come from the grave to haunt someone...
Felix Vasquez Jr.-Cinema Crazed
If you give October Country enough of a shot, it becomes crystal clear that filmmakers Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher care about their subjects.
Jeffrey M. Anderson-Combustible Celluloid
Mohawk Valley is a beautiful place, but, just like the Mosher family, it's been blighted by modern times. Here is a place where people gather to watch fireworks. At Walmart.
Laura Clifford-Reeling Reviews
It's a remarkable, unsentimental portrait that refuses to condescend or lecture to either its subjects or its audience.
Marc Mohan-Oregonian
A devastating documentary portrait of its filmmaker Donal Mosher's family living in the culture vacuum of Mohawk Valley, New York, "October Country" is an essential social document of American reality.
Cole Smithey-ColeSmithey.com
Documentary focuses on the despair of one extended family, but might as well represent an uncompromising, microcosmic study of American poverty.
Eric Monder-Film Journal International
The film has a haunted, autumnal motif
Chris Barsanti-Filmcritic.com
An enlightening, well-edited, haunting, thoroughly compelling and unflinchingly honest documentary that's essential viewing for every family, whether dysfunctional or not.
Avi Offer-NYC Movie Guru
Ultimately, it's the Mosher clan's resilience and lack of self-pity that keeps October Country from coming across as a case of pure exploitation.
Ethan Alter-NYC Film Critic
A candid and troubling documentary about a working-class family in upstate New York whose lives have been deeply altered by violence.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat-Spirituality and Practice
Rare opportunity to hear frankly from a real family recovering from bad choices who have tough decisions to face in a beautiful, chronically economically depressed region.
Nora Lee Mandel-Film-Forward.com
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