Product Description A coming-of-age story set in a vast, cross-country landscape, Arcadia begins when twelve-year-old Greta's dad Tom (Academy Award nominated actor John Hawkes) wakes her up before dawn and crams her and her two siblings into a dented station wagon. They set off on a 3,000 mile journey from the New England woods to the California desert. On the way, Tom tells enchanting stories, paints pictures of a California paradise, and assures the kids that Mom will soon join them. Greta believes him at first, mesmerized by the strange new scenery and clinging to her stuffed bunny Harrison. Older sister Caroline nonchalantly accepts his stories, more focused on the boyfriend she's leaving behind. And nine-year-old Nat, too young to suspect a thing, is eager to see the epic Grand Canyon. But Tom's mood shifts as often as the landscape outside their window, and the kids soon find themselves in increasingly unpleasant and even dangerous situations. Mom's presence seems to recede further with every mile they travel. Review WINNER - Crystal Bear - Berlin Int'l Film Festival WINNER - Best Children's Film - Oulu Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Sarasota Film Festival Official Selection - Woodstock Film Festival Official Selection - Indianapolis Int'l Film Festival Official Selection - Gijon Int'l Film Festival ----[Director Olivia] Silvers ability to translate the liminal into cinematic terms, to catch those moments between innocence and knowing, childhood and adulthood, unforgiving and forgiving, makes her someone to watch. --Manohla Dargis, The New York TimesThe ever reliable John Hawkes [is as] charismatic a presence as ever! --Leslie Felperin, VarietyARCADIA boasts fine performances, especially by John Hawkes... and by Ryan Simpkins, who emerges as quite the riveting young actress. --Christopher Bourne, TwitchARCADIA boasts fine performances, especially by John Hawkes... and by Ryan Simpkins, who emerges as quite the riveting young actress. --Christopher Bourne, Twitch
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About the Actor Born and raised in rural Minnesota, John Hawkes moved to Austin, Texas to begin his career as an actor and musician. He co-founded the Big State Productions Theatre Company and appeared in the group's original play, IN THE WEST, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In 2005, John starred in the critically acclaimed ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, which received wide praise and was awarded the special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Camera d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2006 he began his series-long turn as Sol Star in the Emmy Award Winning HBO frontier drama, DEADWOOD. In 2010, John delivered a groundbreaking performance as the menacing backwoods meth addict Teardrop in WINTER'S BONE, which earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Additional feature credits include, the Lion's Gate film A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE (1999) with Guy Pearce, the psychological thriller Identity (2003) alongside John Cusack and Ray Liotta, MIAMI VICE (2006) with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell, PLAYING GOD (2004), THE PERFECT STORM (2000), FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996), AMERICAN GANGSTER (2007) and more recently CONTAGION (2011). Hawkes also starred and co-produced in the independent film BUTTLEMAN (2003) for which he received a Breakout Performance Award at the 2004 Sedona Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Deep Ellum Film Festival. Currently Hawkes can be seen in theaters starring in THE SESSIONS as well as LINCOLN. About the Director Olivia Silver grew up in Connecticut and California and is a graduate of the UCLA MFA Directing program. After earning a BA in English from Williams College, she worked in book publishing and foreign policy before turning to filmmaking. Olivia has worked for the Oscar-nominated writer/directors John Sayles and Hany Abu-Assad. Her short film AISLE 73, starring Bob Larkin and Angela Paton (GROUNDHOG DAY), won awards and screened in festivals around the world. Her thesis film LITTLE CANYON premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and screened at Edinburgh, Denver, Nantucket, Sarasota, LACMA Young Director's Night and numerous other festivals. Olivia is a dual U.S.-French citizen and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. See more
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C**R
Sweet moving and truthful
ARCADIA is a small film about coming of age in a broken family. That could describe any number of films out of Sundance or other indie friendly fests in a given year. Arcadia rises above the rest. The emotions on display are handled with a sensitivity not often found outside of literature. The film handles this coming of age so well, portrays it so accurately that it was given a special award at the berlin film festival, by a jury of kids. They voted this film the one the most represented what it felt like to be a kid, right now.John Hawkes is a genius and he gives a taught performance as the dad who is struggling keeping his family together by the barest of threads. He isn't a geeat dad, and Hawkes seems to know this, and have the character apologize for this sad fact even with his body language. It should have won an award.Ryan Simpkins is the girl who the film focuses on, and she is fantastic.Rent it, buy it, stream it, whatever. See it.~A
S**N
If you like Mysteries with only a Few Clues. . .
If you like being kept in the dark, long periods of silence filled with LOUD {"Background"} music, then this is the movie for you. The long silences would be okay Except they Ruin the thoughtful moments with loud music that I MUST turn down to preserve sanity! I was expecting to watch a relaxing movie before going to bed - this Definitely Did NOT fit the bill. At a different time of day, and ease up on the music, and it wouldn't be too bad. I did not like guessing what was going on. After the kids caught Dad in a couple of lies, my imagination ran wild.
S**M
she was a smart mouthed teen but it showed tremendous problems on the ...
This movie was ok until he dumped his daughter n no-where-land.Yep, she was a smart mouthed teen but it showed tremendous problems on the part of the dad. Inexcusable.Didn't like him from the beginning.So understandably hard to believe he had a "big, desk job" waiting for him in L.A.
D**N
A little too laid back
I have trouble sorting out my feelings about the situation and what I would have done. I really felt sorry for the father, though.
E**Z
A good view of what a young adolescent experiences when there ...
A good view of what a young adolescent experiences when there is the separation of a parent. Single parent Father struggle to protect his children while truing to be sensitive to their growing needs, and the challenge to be honest with his adolescent daughter who is going through many emotional, and physical changes.
J**Y
Where is CPS when you need them?
Kind of slow, the father was a jerk that reminded me too much of my ex-husband. Basically a coming-of-age show for the main character daughter. It was hard watching those poor kids go through it all the dead put them through. He needed some mental help himself.
B**E
Lovely sweet film, John Hawkes is terrific, as usual
This is a little movie about a family's cross country trip to a new home, but without Mom. As is almost always the case, John Hawkes' acting is persuasive and amazing. He always becomes the character he plays and this one is conflicted but resolute in his belief that he is doing the right thing and that nothing else matters. The young actress playing Greta is also wonderfully heartbreaking in this role. Made me think, and made me a bit sad and a bit happy.
B**N
Arcadia
Interesting character study but nothing that I'd recommend to run out and see.
S**N
A touching and real story... (spoiler alert!)
I heard about this prize-winning film from a friend who was lucky enough to visit the Berlin film festival a few years ago, I'm glad I gave it a viewing.It's basically a 'road movie' and as such it doesn't dissapoint. The cinematography is excellent; the passing scenery outside the car is artistically shot and as moody as the ambience inside the car where lead actor John Hawkes drives his three children across the US to a new life on the west coast. There is a dark shadow cast across the trip in the form of the missing parent - mom. This mystery gradually and subtly unfolds throughout the journey.The father is a complex and somewhat erratic character who frustrates, dissapoints and loves his children in seemingly equal quantity. I was prepared to dislike him - force-feeding his children junk feed and getting them to lie for him in a police station being two of many examples of his poor parenting skills - but then, amidst his violent outbursts and dishonesty I began to warm to the possibility that he was just trying to do the right thing by his kids.The star of the show is a young actress Ryan Simpkins who plays the middle child and central character Gretta. She is a young teenager and it is her coming of age and to terms with her unperfect and changing world that provides the main storyline. She is seen for most of the film clutching a stuffed rabbit, seemingly defying the inevitable next stage in her life.I watched this film with my teenagers who were sufficiently transfixed that they didn't once reach for their telephones or other screen distraction; that has to be a recommendation for family viewing.All in all I found this to be an excellent film and a refreshing change from the run of the mill, overbudgeted Hollywood mindbuster; it was touching and memorable and I cared about the characters.
A**T
Pas de sous-titres
Il était écrit qu'il y avait des sous-titre, publicité mensongère ! Dommage, je ne peux pas le regarder, je ne suis pas bilingue
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Born and raised in rural Minnesota, John Hawkes moved to Austin, Texas to begin his career as an actor and musician. He co-founded the Big State Productions Theatre Company and appeared in the group's original play, IN THE WEST, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In 2005, John starred in the critically acclaimed ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, which received wide praise and was awarded the special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Camera d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2006 he began his series-long turn as Sol Star in the Emmy Award Winning HBO frontier drama, DEADWOOD. In 2010, John delivered a groundbreaking performance as the menacing backwoods meth addict Teardrop in WINTER'S BONE, which earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Additional feature credits include, the Lion's Gate film A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE (1999) with Guy Pearce, the psychological thriller Identity (2003) alongside John Cusack and Ray Liotta, MIAMI VICE (2006) with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell, PLAYING GOD (2004), THE PERFECT STORM (2000), FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996), AMERICAN GANGSTER (2007) and more recently CONTAGION (2011). Hawkes also starred and co-produced in the independent film BUTTLEMAN (2003) for which he received a Breakout Performance Award at the 2004 Sedona Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Deep Ellum Film Festival. Currently Hawkes can be seen in theaters starring in THE SESSIONS as well as LINCOLN.
About the Director
Olivia Silver grew up in Connecticut and California and is a graduate of the UCLA MFA Directing program. After earning a BA in English from Williams College, she worked in book publishing and foreign policy before turning to filmmaking. Olivia has worked for the Oscar-nominated writer/directors John Sayles and Hany Abu-Assad. Her short film AISLE 73, starring Bob Larkin and Angela Paton (GROUNDHOG DAY), won awards and screened in festivals around the world. Her thesis film LITTLE CANYON premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and screened at Edinburgh, Denver, Nantucket, Sarasota, LACMA Young Director's Night and numerous other festivals. Olivia is a dual U.S.-French citizen and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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