Thriller

Mystery

A Dark Place

Zero Gravity Management

Bedlam Productions

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

Andrew Scott

Bronagh Waugh

Denise Gough

Michael Rose

Sandra Ellis Lafferty

Christa Beth Campbell

Eric Mendenhall

Andrew Masset

Christian Finlayson

Kate Forbes

Jason Davis

J.D. Evermore

Becky Wahlstrom

Tom Olson

Griff Furst

Bella Fraker

Kevin Patrick Murphy

Jared Bankens

Cory Scott Allen

Sean Freeland

Thomas Elliott

Deadra Moore

Eric Benson

Nolan Cook

Gage Lawson

Catherine Dyer

Christopher Kelly

Glen Gathard

Jemma Riley-Tolch

Ben Tat

Nik Morgan

Aaron 'Cujo' Cooley

Katelyn Barton

James Hayday

Zoe Freed

Leay Cangelosi

Peter Burgis

Molly Coffee

Adam Bourne

Lane Friedman

Gaby Macias

Robert Farr

Leon Clarance

Tai Duncan

Simon Fellows

Gareth Unwin

Chris Dickens

Jo Monk

Laure Vaysse

Marcel Zyskind

Lorraine Coppin

Lee Vandermolen

Deepak Nayar

Erik Rehl

David Arshadi

Nanw Rowlands

Benjamin Talbott

John E.R. Hardy

Samuel Barnes

Victoria Ashfield

Brendan Higgins

Mark Williams

_**Secrets in a former steel town**_

In a small town outside Pittsburgh, an autistic trashman (Andrew Scott) is troubled by the death of a boy that he knew on his route. When he conducts his own guileless investigation it ruffles the feathers of certain people. What are they hiding? Bronagh Waugh plays his coworker, Denise Gough his ex-girlfriend and Michael Rose the Sheriff.  

"A Dark Place” (2018), originally titled “Steel Country,” is an unhurried drama/mystery that well captures life in an eastern American town. It’s a low-key character study, social commentary and possible murder mystery. "Sling Blade" (1996) is a good comparison, but this is thankfully more succinct.  

While it’s true that the protagonist’s amateur sleuthing acquires answers too easily, the story chooses to focus on the town atmosphere, the people and their relationships as opposed to excessive details of detective work, which works for me.

I was really appreciating this movie until the beginning of the last act when we are asked to buy something radical that Donnie does and, as far as I can tell, totally gets away with since it’s conveniently forgotten. It’s so ridiculous that I was hoping it was just a dream but, no, I guess it really happened. On top of this is the unsavory nature of the root issue and murky insinuations of why it’s condoned.  

The film runs 1 hour, 28 minutes, and was shot in the area of Griffin, Georgia, which is a half hour drive south of Atlanta and definitely looks like Western Pennsylvania.

GRADE: B-

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