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The Retrieval
Directed by
Chris Eska
R
2014
1h 32m
Drama
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Western
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6.6
93%
72%
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On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
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Cast of The Retrieval
Ashton Sanders
Will
Tishuan Scott
Nate
Keston John
Marcus
Christine Horn
Rachel
Alfonso Freeman
Isaac
Raven Ledeatte
Abby
Jonathan R. Freeman
Royce
Bill Oberst Jr.
Burrell
Tangela Wilson
Free Camp Woman
Chris Eska
Director / Writer
Jacob Esquivel
Producer
Jason Wehling
Producer
The Retrieval Ratings & Reviews
Shadow and Act
Shadow and Act Staff
Chris Eska's resonant, gem of a film, just his second feature, is a well-researched and relevant drama.
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
A low-key gem.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
A resonant and haunting coming of age narrative that's as adeptly written as it is performed.
The Film Stage
John Fink
The film is subtle at times, yet provides an intense depiction of internal destruction, betrayal and sacrifice.
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Linda Cook
It's not a coming-of-age movie, and it's not a slavery movie. Nor is 'The Retrieval' a Civil War movie.
Playback:stl
Sarah Boslaugh
... less a Civil War picture than a road movie and a coming-of-age tale.
Film Threat
Don Simpson
Like the subject of a well-told proverb, Will is forced to learn about loyalty and trust while he navigates the dense moral grayness between society's definitions of right and wrong.
Orange County Register
Michael Sragow
The Retrieval's potency transcends its scope. It shows you, in microcosm, the sacrifices that forge the conscience not only of a boy, but of a nation.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
"The Retrieval" comes at you like a haunting slip of a memory, one that writer-director Chris Eska retrieves from a mostly forgotten era in unforgettable ways.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Ambitious as all get out, The Retrieval is an indie film production that belies its small budget.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It is indeed a beautiful film, but with each horizon tinged with sadness. If it was an Instagram filter, it would probably be called melancholy or something.
Film Comment Magazine
Steven Mears
Despite its plentiful achievements, The Retrieval hews too closely to familiar coming-of-age tropes and demonstrates a frustrating reluctance to be its own film.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The movie's flaws are not missteps, but steps not taken.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
Low-budget period indies rarely inhabit their world as convincingly as does this drama, which is set in the South in 1864.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
Both in its structure and its dialogue, Eska's writing is similarly adroit, and he matches those accomplishments with the topnotch performances he gets from his three leads.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A tough, tender little movie, "The Retrieval" tells a story of divided souls wandering a divided land.
The Dissolve
David Ehrlich
The Retrieval is hardly the first indie to transcend its budget, but it's one of the few to tackle the kind of prohibitively expensive period setting that has restricted such stories to prestige pictures.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Less old-fashioned than demure and pass, evoking the visual style and rhythms of a 1990s made-for-TV movie rather than a daring, revisionist independent feature.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Equal parts suspenseful road movie, persuasively detailed period drama and emotionally resonant coming-of-age story, The Retrieval is an outstanding example of regional indie filmmaking accomplished with limited resources and an abundance of skill.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
A skillfully wrought feature with appreciable emotional and historical resonance.
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