Troy Garity

You Can’t Go Home Again, Unless the Dealer Wants His Stake

MOVIE REVIEW
Lake City (2008)

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Kent Eanes

“Lake City” uncomfortably weaves two of the most time-worn indie film formulas into a messy, convoluted 92 minutes. Hunter Hill and Perry Moore, the writer-directors, cram into their screenplay both the dysfunctional-family-uncomfortably-reunited plot line and the trouble-with-the-drug-dealer one. The movie adheres so closely to those standards that it feels like Sundance by committee.

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