This film left me with a sour taste as we watch a family of shysters get away with conning their fellow local farmers and a huge chemical company. The younger son is willing to break the rules, even the law, as is the father and the mother in due course, who help to cover up the manslaughter of a local farmer's son. The only member of this godforsaken family who ends up with a relatively clean slate is the elder son, who spends almost the entire movie off camera as he climbs mountains in Argentina. Nevertheless, even he must have known that his father had been a snakeoil salesman all his life. Perhaps he left not just to climb mountains far, far away, but to be rid of the crokked taint of his family and the temptations to join in if he had stayed. The movie ends with no punitive outcome for the family whatsoever as they celebrate another annual Whipple neighbourly get-together with food and dancing.
I've given the movie 6/10, because the cinematography is superb. You can practically feel the wind on your cheeks as you stand metaphorically at the edge of a huge field of growing corn. Oh, and also for the delectable young missy played by the very cute Maika Monroe.
I've given the movie 6/10, because the cinematography is superb. You can practically feel the wind on your cheeks as you stand metaphorically at the edge of a huge field of growing corn. Oh, and also for the delectable young missy played by the very cute Maika Monroe.