Middle Of Nowhere
A promising medical student must come to terms with her husband receiving an eight year prison sentence, which leads her on a journey of self-discovery in the process. She considers leaving him for a charming bus driver...
28 April 1953, Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
9 January 1974, Savannah, Georgia, USA
1 April 1976, Oxford, England, UK
11 June 1986, Apple Valley, California, USA
14 January 1980, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA
19 December 1951, New York City, New York, USA
31 March 1989, Fresno, California, USA
4 April 1960, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
March 31, 2015
Burrows deep into a lower working-class, primarily female African-American milieu and culture rarely presented onscreen with any sort of realism or understanding.
February 08, 2013
Made by a black American woman, about a black American woman, it's a study of a culture where the matriarchs are strong by necessity and trapped by circumstance - adrift in the middle of nowhere.
October 18, 2012
A sluggish enterprise, not measured or languorous or full of detail, but plodding, with scenes that run too long and others that are unnecessary.
March 14, 2015
This isn't about dramatic revelations and charge confrontations. DuVernay, who also wrote the original screenplay, has made a film about those moments lived between the decisions...
June 16, 2016
Before directing Selma, Ava Duverny made Middle of Nowhere (2012), a small story about a woman who put her aspirations on hold when her husband goes to prison.
February 08, 2013
A film remarkably true to life's haphazard rhythms.
November 30, 2012
[A] hushed, tenderly observant drama about a young woman trying to do right by herself and her marriage while her husband is in prison.
May 03, 2015
I should love this movie, but something about it kept me at arm's length.
June 28, 2013
Though writer-director Ava DuVernay avoids any and all cliché right up until the closing titles, I have no qualms ending this review with one: I wholeheartedly look forward to her next project.
October 19, 2012
This film is about a particular African-American experience, true, but it's also about the human experience. It will haunt you. It should.
January 12, 2015
DuVernay uses this situation as a light but poignant metaphor for Ruby's personal growth, as she finds a way to escape her own kind of prison.
October 24, 2012
This is a tough-minded story of change that happens in almost imperceptibly tiny increments - as true growth so often does in reality.
