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Blow the Man Down

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Morgan Saylor

Sophie Lowe

Margo Martindale

June Squibb

Annette O'Toole

Marceline Hugot

Gayle Rankin

Will Brittain

Skipp Sudduth

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

David Coffin

David Pridemore

Adam Wolf Mayerson

Mark S. Cartier

Meredith Holzman

Linda Shary

Owen Burke

Neil Odoms

Kendrey Rodriguez

Mary Coombs

Kat Palardy

Thomas Kee

Danny James Walton

Katie Lobel

Jordan Dykstra

Danielle Krudy

Albert Berger

Brian McOmber

Drew P. Houpt

Bridget Savage Cole

Jasmine Ballou Jones

Brooke Bennett

Lucas Joaquin

Todd Banhazl

Marc Vives

Tatiana Bears

David C. Sales

Alex Scharfman

Josh Hensley

Jake Westphal

Ralph Lambiase

Rebecca Dealy

Matt Rigby

Nick Seaman

Gil Litver

Matt Yaple

Melissa Chapman

Kymberly Murphy

Ryan Collison

Chris Falkowski

Matt Keyser

Jason Reif

Laura Heinzinger

Benjamin Logan

José Frías

Nicholas Huynh

Annie Pearlman

Nora Linde

Rebecca Birstock

Max Allman

Jessica Kelly

Joanna Fang

Chris Foster

Jeong Park

Ron Yerxa

Michael Flannery

Kalle Bailey

Karla Santos

Danielle Mandel

Michael Kefeyalew

Eliza Coleman

Lia Buman

Barbara Barton

William Plausse

Laura Klein

Maggie Ambrose

Milla Bell-Hart

Kat Hess

Holly Popowski

Dalton Slade Kimball

Rebecca Myshrall

Bridget Rafferty

Max Silva

Jennifer Lamb

Tim Headington

Joy Seaboch

Kevin Perez

Daniel Regenstreif Axe

Daniel Sweren-Becker

Isata Allen

Tayarisha Poe

Stacey Hummell

Kate Wilson

Tywan Williams

Jeff Griecci

Toby Sells

Gideon Jensen

Anna Kelman

Leslie Bloome

Nat Jencks

Laura Cunningham

Kenneth Kildee

Philip McGuire

Spencer Forgham-Thrift

Jay Fisher

Grant Miller

David Lebensfeld

Peter McGinn

I was led to watch this on the recommendation of a couple friends. They liked it and mentioned it was set in our home state of Maine. I guess I wasn’t as impressed with it as much as they were, for I only finished watching it because of that recommendation and the Maine connection.

I write novels, so I suppose plotting matters to me for that reason, and I had some difficulty from nearly the beginning here. When you have two cops in this small town investigating a crime energetically (at least by one of them — the other was a little more folksy about it), it doesn’t quite wash with me that the same police would turn a blind eye to a house of prostitution for decades.

And there is vagueness here: vague threats, mysterious references to the past, motivations are hinted at but not defined.  It reminds me of a Bob Dylan song, whose lyrics often reveal more by the details he leaves out. But that works better with a five-minute song than with a 90 minute movie. Anyway, it doesn’t seem like it wouldn’t have taken much to greatly improve the film.   If you are looking for mood and a distraction while doing g something else like — I dondon’t know, housework or phone texting or internet surfing, the movie might intrigue you, but less so if you sit down with popcorn and really dig into the logic and the complexities of the story.

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Morgan Saylor

Sophie Lowe

Margo Martindale

June Squibb

Annette O'Toole

Marceline Hugot

Gayle Rankin

Will Brittain

Skipp Sudduth

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

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