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Never Get Outta the Boat

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Never Get Outta the Boat
Directed byPaul Quinn
Written byNick Gillie
Produced byJason Kliot
Joana Vicente
Starring
CinematographyRobert Benavides
Edited byTerilyn A. Shropshire
Music byVictor Indrizzo
Production
companies
Blow-Up Pictures
New Crime Productions
Lot 47 Films
Distributed byColumbia TriStar Home Video
Lot 47 Films
Release date
  • 7 September 2002 (2002-09-07) (Toronto International Film Festival)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Never Get Outta the Boat is a 2002 American drama film directed by Paul Quinn, starring Lombardo Boyar, Darren E. Burrows, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Nick Gillie, Devon Gummersall, Harry Lennix, Alley Mills, Sebastian Roché and William Sanderson.

Cast

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Release

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The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2002.[1]

Reception

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Robert Koehler of Variety wrote that the film is "adept at creating a sense of imbalance and tension" and praised the cinematography, the script and the performances of Boyar, Burrows, Lennix, Gillie, Roché and Lennix.[2] Jay Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel wrote: "Its gritty, aggressively edgy atmosphere holds your attention as you begin to find yourself caring about these troubled men."[3] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that the film "tells a familiar story uncommonly well" and praised the "fully human" characters.[4]

Cornelia de Bruin of the Chicago Reader wrote that while the film "succumbs to genre conventions", it is "buoyed by a strong ensemble".[5] Cornelia de Bruin of the Taos News wrote that while the film "goes nowhere new", it is "brilliantly acted".[6] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "ends up as guilty of posturing and manufacturing synthetic realities as those cliched productions from which it believes it is distancing itself", and criticised the cinematography, the "jittery" editing and the performances.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Friedman, Josh (13 September 2002). "First Person; A Tourist and Film Fan Finds 'People's Fest' Is Aptly Named". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  2. ^ Koehler, Robert (11 September 2002). "Never Get Outta the Boat". Variety. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  3. ^ Boyar, Jay (7 March 2003). "`NEVER GET OUTTA THE BOAT'". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Hi-Pointe". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 17 November 2003. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  5. ^ Jones, J.R. "Never Get Outta the Boat". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  6. ^ de Bruin, Cornelia (16 April 2003). "Never Get Outta the Boat". Taos News. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  7. ^ Rechtschaffen, Michael (11 September 2002). "Never Get Outta the Boat". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
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