{"id":7757,"date":"2013-09-30T05:29:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2013-10-01T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:21:39","slug":"beside-still-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/beside-still-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Beside Still Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"[rating=5]\n

Drama ,\u00a0<\/strong>US, 2013,\u00a0English,\u00a076 minutes, color<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

description
\n<\/strong><\/span>Daniel Thatcher, a young romantic, recently lost both parents in a car accident. No friends came to the funeral: now he’s losing the family home. The weekend before he moves out, Daniel hosts a memorial celebration and insists his friends attend. He also invites his ex-girlfriend, Olivia, hoping to rekindle their old romance.\u00a0Things quickly take a turn for the worse as no one shares Daniel’s good old days\u00a0nostalgia. And when Olivia finally arrives, she brings her new fianc\u00e9. As the night\u00a0progresses, the house brings out the adolescence in everyone. What follows is an evening full of drinking and dancing. Laughter and secrets. Sex, drugs, mischief and regret.<\/p>\n

Next day everyone faces the revelations of the night before, including Daniel, who finally confronts his friends about their absence at his parents’ funeral. Again, Daniel finds\u00a0himself alone and brokenhearted. He has to let go of the past, to mourn, forgive. In doing so, Daniel begins to see that the flaws in the people he loves intertwine with their beauty.\u00a0As everyone leaves the house for the last time, childhood memories come flooding back, and Daniel is left with the hope that the friendships of his past will become the family of\u00a0his future.<\/p>\n

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contributors<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>director<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Lowell
\ncast<\/strong>\u00a0Beck Bennett,\u00a0Will Brill,\u00a0Brett Dalton,\u00a0Erin Darke,\u00a0Ryan Eggold,\u00a0Jessy Hodges,\u00a0Britt Lower,\u00a0Reid Scott
\nproducers<\/strong>\u00a0Jason Potash,\u00a0Paul Finkel,\u00a0Chris Lowell,\u00a0Mohit Narang,\u00a0Steven Gorel
\nscreenwriter<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Lowell, Mohit Narang
\ncinematographer<\/strong>\u00a0Tim Naylor
\neditor<\/strong>\u00a0Nick Houy<\/p>\n

summary review<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe stage is set for an interesting exploration of ongoing friendship over time but the players and characterizations do not ring true. Might he better and more interesting as a sitcom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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script\/story<\/td>\n[rating=5]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
acting<\/td>\n[rating=7]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
cinematography<\/td>\n[rating=8]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
technical quality<\/td>\n[rating=8]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
afterglow<\/td>\n[rating=3]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Overall<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n[rating=5]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lUPf64iVs24<\/p>\n

imDB info\u00a0here<\/span><\/strong>
\nBeside Still Waters<\/p>\n

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