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Bookmark this pageOff the Map (2002)
Director: Campbell Scott
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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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