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Off the Map (2002)
Director: Campbell Scott
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This whimsical if somewhat obscure desert movie, adapted by Joan Ackermann from her own play, is in the likeable vein of Bagdad Café. A taxman ventures deep into New Mexico to audit the books of a gloomy, catatonic homesteader (Elliott) who lives with his family in a home without so much as a telephone. The winsome, Wonder Years-style voice-over which begins the film (spoken by Elliott's daughter) is an irritation, but there's a deadpan, surrealist humour here which is very easy to warm to. Allen excels as the free-thinking, hippyish wife and Elliott, though he seldom speaks, has gravitas and screen presence a-plenty. Director Scott strikes a leisurely but beguiling tempo.Author: GM
Cast & crew
Director: Campbell Scott
Producer: Campbell Scott, George Van Buskirk
Cast: Joan Allen, Sam Elliott, Valentina de Angelis, JK Simmons, Jim True-Frost, Amy Brenneman full cast
Duration: 111 mins
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