Storyline
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.
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Cast
Ty Olsson, Tanya Hubbard, Graham Greene, Radha Mitchell, Emily Holmes, Kendall Cross, Ryan Robbins, Alice Braga, David Mackay, Octavia Spencer, Megan Charpentier, Tim McGraw, Sam Worthington, Christopher Britton, Jay Brazeau, Derek Hamilton, Gage Munroe, Lane Edwards, Leena Manro, Carson Reaume, David Longworth, Aviv Alush, Sumire Matsubara, Amélie Eve, Jordyn Ashley Olson, Laura MacKillop, Greta Makena Gibson, Kayla Fielding, Grace Netter
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Reviews
50
The Shack is a well-acted and sometimes moving but far too often slow-paced and unconvincing spiritual journey.
50
The strangest thing about The Shack, and the reason it’s finally a so-so movie, is that all the rage and terror and dark-side vengeance that Mack has to learn to transcend is something we’re told about, but we never actually see him mired in it.
50
A bit more editing to remove some of the airiness would have made for a better film.
42
Spencer and Alush turn in the film’s best performances, and Spencer’s natural warmth and Alush’s deep charm keep The Shack hammering right along.
40
As directed by Stuart Hazeldine, even its jolts of surrealism feel curiously stilted; what it needed was a director whose reverence would be tempered by a healthy sense of the ludicrous, an ability to tap into and draw out the material’s stranger undercurrents.
