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Midnight Special
2016 1h 52m PG-13
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A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.
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Directed By
Jeff Nichols
Written By
Jeff Nichols
Studio
Faliro House Productions
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Cast of Midnight Special
Michael Shannon
Roy Tomlin
Jaeden Martell
Alton Meyer
Joel Edgerton
Lucas
Kirsten Dunst
Sarah Tomlin
Adam Driver
Agent Sevier
David Jensen
Elden
Sam Shepard
Calvin Meyer
Scott Haze
Levi
Dana Gourrier
Sharon Davison
Paul Sparks
Agent Miller
Kerry Cahill
Linda (NSA Staffer)
Bill Camp
Doak
Billy Slaughter
Agent Cole
Lucy Faust
Caroline (Ranch Member)
Sean Bridgers
Fredrick (Ranch Member)
Allison King
Hannah (Ranch Member)
Sharon Landry
Merrianne (Doak's Wife)
Sharon Garrison
Jane Adams (Sarah's Mother)
James Moses Black
Military Officer
Yvonne Landry
Motel Clerk
Maureen Brennan
Woman at Truckstop
Ann Mahoney
FBI Agent #1
Garrett Hines
FBI Agent #2
Wayne Pére
Prison FBI Agent
Dane Rhodes
Oil Worker
Lee Zurik
Local Newscaster #1
Nicondra Norwood
Local Newscaster #2
Sam Malone
Soldier at Roadblock
Sean Kaplan
Texas State Trooper
James DuMont
Base Commander
Nancy Grace
Nancy Grace
Lynn Berry
Lynn Berry
Alexander Eldimiati
Stand in (uncredited)
D'Arcy Allen
FBI Agent (uncredited)
John L. Armijo
National Guardsman (uncredited)
Michelle Benet
Car Crash Victim (uncredited)
Midnight Special Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It all sounds terribly murky, but few filmmakers are as gifted at making you want to peer through the murk.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
You watch helplessly as the movie goes off the rails, the suspense and excitement leaking out of the enormous tension the early scenes had generated.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Nichols has earned the right to take big leaps. Even if he doesn't stick the landing, it's a thrill watching him try. He, too, is something special.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Weirder stuff begins happening, but that's best left to the movie's telling rather than mine.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
There is an adrenaline-fueled elasticity to events that is as smooth as it is exhilarating, all of it given extra potency thanks to the emotional complexities driving things to their conclusion.
Chesapeake Family Magazine
Roxana Hadadi
Midnight Special is a film about fatherhood and faith, with sci-fi elements that are engrossing, mysterious, and will linger with viewers for a long time.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
Nichols does so many things so well, and all at once, that it sort of takes your breath away.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Riffing on John Carpenter's Starman, writer-director Jeff Nichols has crafted a sci-fi chase film whose gravely naturalistic style adds to its sense of portent.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Lieberher is outstanding, with a gravity and dignity that tell us more about Alton than the special effects.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Midnight Special, a beautifully strange and stirring sci-fi adventure about a boy with special powers, was written and directed by Jeff Nichols, a storyteller with special powers of his own.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It's a weird film, one you'd probably have to call science fiction if someone made you pick a genre, and a deeply satisfying one.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
More intriguing than satisfying. There's solid acting and tingly tension, but the story doesn't quite add up.
The Atlantic
David Sims
When it's on the road, Midnight Special is a largely thrilling ride, but whenever it stops to take a breath, the magic stops with it.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
It's refreshing to find yourself immersed in a film that zigs and zags between genres -- and occasionally zaps your senses with an electric charge of shock and awe.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Nichols establishes such a grounded sense of atmosphere and such superb control of mood and pacing, that the odd hiccup barely matters.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Nichols gets us to lean in, and to throw away or at least reconsider a few preconceptions about how much and what sort of narrative baby-sitting an audience requires.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
How the film plays out, and what happens to the boy and the adults in his company, may prove a revelation, or a disappointment, or something in between. But getting there is thrilling and wondrously strange.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
The picture is a long tease, artfully constructed. Mood is all-important, and it's a mood designed to keep the audience off balance and on edge until the very end.
CBR
Kristy Puchko
Arthouse Amblin...[Midnight Special] is daring, dynamic and demands to be seen.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
Even if the film unravels a bit at the end, the set-up is terrific, driven in large part by the way Nichols continues to play to his storytelling strengths.
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Midnight Special: Joel Edgerton On His Character
Midnight Special: Michael Shannon On His Character
Midnight Special: Jeff Nichols On His Writing Process
Midnight Special: Jaeden Lieberher On Reading The Script
Midnight Special: Adam Driver On Becoming Involved With The Project
Midnight Special: Sarah Green On First Hearing About The Project From Jeff Nichols
Midnight Special: Kirsten Dunst On Where We Find 'Sarah' In The Beginning Of The Story
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