Desert Blue

Desert Blue is a 1998 American comedydrama film written and directed by Morgan J. Freeman and starring Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson. Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Sara Gilbert, and John Heard.

Scenes were filmed in Goldfield, Nevada and Tonahpah, Nevada to portray the fictional small town.citation needed Rotten Tomatoes, review aggregator, reports thatofsurveyed critics gave the film a positive review the average rating was 510. Glenn Lovell of Variety called it a cloying, mechanically plotted comedy. Lawrence van Gelder of The New York Times wrote, The graceful literary and directorial touch of Morgan J. Freeman turns these youngsters into individuals rather than cinemas customary caricatures. John Anderson of the Los Angeles Times wrote, Its a small story, perhaps even an ephemeral movie, but Desert Blue also has a novelistic capacity for character and setting, without either the maudlin sentimentality or gratuitous vulgarity of most teenoriented movies. Roger Ebert of The Chicago SunTimes rated it three out of four stars and compared it to The Last Picture Show and U Turn, saying that it is the herbal tea version of the latter. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly rated it C and described the setting as yet another indie drama set in a burg reminiscent, by way of aggressive eccentricity, of TVs Northern Exposure. ........

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