The Driftless Area
The film tells the story of a young man by the name of Pierre Hunter who returns to his hometown after his parents die, only to get in a dangerous situation involving a mysterious woman and a violent criminal.
3 January 1987, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
17 January 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 June 1951, Wainwright, Alberta, Canada
9 February 1953, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
11 October 1957, St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada
9 January 1941, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
2 November 1969, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
26 June 1984, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
10 November 1984, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
23 August 1971, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
11 March 1989, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
11 September 1959, Alexandria, Minnesota, USA
1 January 1938, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
30 October 1982, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
23 July 1969, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
18 April 1989, Riverside, California, USA
April 23, 2015
A self-consciously quirky, slightly otherworldly tale whose eagerness to win audiences over with whimsy only succeeds at keeping us at arm's length.
June 11, 2016
Glaciers didn't go through this area, so there's no drift (silt, clay, sand, gravel, and boulders). So the area is therefore driftless. That's very interesting. To geologists.
April 19, 2015
"The Driftless Area" isn't so much bad as it is trivial and forgettable, but in a day and age of dwindling cinemagoers, and interest in adult storytelling fading from the big screen, its weary insignificance feels all the more criminal.
