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The Slaughter Rule
Directed by
Andrew J. Smith
,
Alex Smith
R
2002
1h 57m
Drama
,
Sport
5.8
77%
42%
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A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
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Cast of The Slaughter Rule
Ryan Gosling
Roy Chutney
David Morse
Gideon 'Gid' Ferguson
Clea DuVall
Skyla Sisco
Amy Adams
Doreen
David Cale
Floyd aka Studebaker
Eddie Spears
Tracy Two Dogs
Kelly Lynch
Evangeline Chutney
Ken White
Russ Colfax
Noah Watts
Waylon Walks Along
Kim DeLong
Lem Axelrod
Geraldine Keams
Gretchen Two Dogs
Douglas Seybern
Uncle Peyton
Cody Harvey
Coach Motlow
Melkon Andonian
Devo
J.P. Gabriel
Jute
Chris Offutt
Charlie
Andrew J. Smith
Director / Writer
Alex Smith
Director / Writer
Christopher Cronyn
Producer
Josh Fagin
Producer
Robert Hawk
Producer
Gavin O'Connor
Producer
Greg O'Connor
Producer
Michael Robinson
Producer
David O. Russell
Producer
The Slaughter Rule Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
David Ansen
The movie has a bred-in-the-bone sense of place, and a willingness to take big emotional risks.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The writing and directing team of twin brothers Alex and Andrew Smith have made an astonishingly good first feature.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Having made his name as a ferocious, self-hating Jewish skinhead in The Believer, 22-year-old Ryan Gosling gives another memorable performance as a lonely, world-hating fatherless quarterback in The Slaughter Rule.
Variety
Joe Leydon
As compellingly played by Morse, a great actor who gives pic more than it gives him, Gideon comes off as a sensitive soul who knows how risky it can be to appear too sensitive in a small town.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The film's powerful meditation on masculinity gets much of its credibility and punch from the two leads, especially Morse, a reliable character actor who sinks his teeth into a role with heavy physical and psychological demands.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
David Morse, who's spent the last 20 years kicking around network television and building up an resume of impressive movie credits, establishes himself as a truly formidable presence in this powerful first feature by Alex and Andrew Smith.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Gosling and Morse give strong performances in this bitter pill movie.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Everyone's got demons to deal with -- from Gideon's guilt over a kid that played for him and died under mysterious circumstances to the audience's unwillingness to sit through two hours of yet another inspirational football movie.
Offoffoff
Joshua Tanzer
Best movie I saw in 2002. Features a terrifyingly real performance by David Morse.
Netflix
James Rocchi
Montana's wide-open spaces -- and the closed hearts of the people who live there -- make for a sincere, superbly acted story of loss and need.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Writer-directors Andrew and Alex Smith go for emotional truth, but what they come up with is often silly.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A timid template of an indie movie that glides through all the proper turns, sticks up all the appropriate signposts, and never once takes a demanding or truthful step.
Los Angeles Daily News
Evan Henerson
A keen and compassionate drama.
E! Online
E! Staff
Clear, cold and yet uniquely sensitive, The Slaughter Rule isn't a by-the-book flick, but that's what makes it so good.
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
Unlike Terrence Malick, whose shadow looms over the film's visual style, the Smiths over-explain, not grasping that all those barren fields and blood-red clouds are doing plenty of work for them.
New York Post
Megan Turner
Its focus on the complex relationship between an emotionally wounded youth and the sexually ambiguous older man who mentors him is a welcome detour from genre routine.
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
The lead performances could hardly be better.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
This promising but confused first film is best viewed as a touching portrait of thwarted, volatile male passion in a world where you could almost say that geography is destiny
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
A coming-of-age tale that nicely exploits the ruggedness of rural Montana and the rough-hewn, often tenuous nature of male friendships in those parts.
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