A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and prestige.
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- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Stephen Campbellon TMDB · Apr 20197/10
**_Deeply respectful of its subject_** > _Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind._ - Ralph Waldo Emerson; "Self-Reliance" (1841) In _Walden_, his 1854 memoir/philosophical treatise, Henry David Thoreau chronicles a period of two years, two months, and two days during which time he lived alone in a small cabin he himself had built in the forest near Walden Pond, Massachusetts, on property owned by his mentor and friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspired by the tenets of transcendentalism, of especial importance to Thoreau was "Self-Reliance", an 1841 essay by Emerson, which argues that an individual must avoid conformity, f
Read the whole review on TMDB - Gimlyon TMDB · Jan 20195/10
Hmmm, it **has** been a while since I've felt An Emotion™. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
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Cast
- Thomasin McKenzieTom
- Ben FosterWill
- Jeff KoberMr. Walters
- Dale DickeyDale
- Dana MillicanJean
- Alyssa McKayValerie
- David PittmanBlane
- Bob WerfelmanBob
- Isaiah StoneIsaiah
- Michael J. ProsserJames
Crew
- Debra GranikDirector
- Debra GranikScreenplay
- Anne RoselliniScreenplay
- Michael McDonoughDirector of Photography
- Dickon HinchliffeOriginal Music Composer
- Jane RizzoEditor
- Anne HarrisonProducer
- Linda ReismanProducer
- Anne RoselliniProducer
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