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Information
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 92 min.
- Director
- Jim Cummings
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.2
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 583
- Favs
- 48
- Dislikes
- 12
- Favs/checks
- 8.2% (1:12)
- Favs/dislikes
- 4:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Jim Cummings's Thunder Road has him play a police officer whose life spins out of control after the double-whammy of his mother's death and an acrimonious divorce. Full points for not making this about police misbehavior as such, as I think it's more subtle this way. Now, it's one thing to follow a lead character that is articulate enough to let us in on what's happening to them, but Officer Jim adds to his pathos by being fairly unintelligent, unable to process his tragedy except instinctively, which is where the film's interest lies, and why it's such a piece of theater of the awkward. The stand-out scene has to be his teacher-parent conference, where the comic and tragic elements come together the best. Plot-wise, I don't think Thunder Road really sells every point - the climax (if we can call it that) especially - but this is first and foremost a portrait, so what's memorable is the performance and character moments (both strong), not the incidents per se. 2 years 8 months ago