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Cold in July (2014)
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Director:
Jim Mickle |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Crime/Thriller |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Cold in July |
RUNNING
TIME
110 minutes |
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Producer:
Linda Moran
Rene Bastian
Adam Folk
Marie Savare |
Screenwriter:
Nick Damici
Jim Mickle |
Review
Although Cold in July opens as a run-of-the-mill 1990s psycho
killer thriller, and certainly plays on suspense at least as
diligently as those films did, it soon becomes clear that there's
more to writer/director Jim Mickle and writer/actor Nick Damici's
story than what first meets the eye. The basic human emotions
explored here are well-known in this genre – it's all about fear,
revenge and shame – but the realization of the story has quite a bit
of innovation and flair, and through Sam Shephard's wonderful
character also a deep sadness. Granted, the introduction of Don
Johnson's loudmouthed private detective reverts it all to more
genre-familiar territory, but Mickle follows up and follows through
with his main thematic dilemma in the film's rather powerful ending.
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