Storyline
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
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Matt Damon, Gary Sievers, Robert Peters, Abigail Breslin, Anne Le Ny, Deanna Dunagan, Moussa Maaskri, Camille Cottin, Eric Starkey, Jay Dee, Lilou Siauvaud, Idir Azougli, Justin France, Ginifer Ree, Thomas Rivas, Ryan Music, Jake Washburn, Erin Herring, David C Tam, Dimitri Payet, Nassiriat Mohamed, Lisandro Boccacci, Chris Tomneer, Paul Limonche, Ludovic Marchand, Philippe Callec, Jean-Pierre Taïeb, Berthélémy Giulj
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Reviews
80
The movie’s more interesting for being less obvious.
75
Bracketed by genre on both ends, the middle third of this 140-minute film becomes a gentle tale about a misfit finding in a platonic relationship a kind of second chance in life. In other words, it becomes a certain kind of Tom McCarthy film — and then gets back to the overarching story.
70
McCarthy pushes the thriller narrative in directions more extreme and harrowing than plausible, bringing Bill and Allison’s story to an unexpected point of reckoning.
67
A strained but strangely affecting turducken of a movie.
60
Screen Daily
There’s real feeling in this story — and a genuine desire to challenge audience expectations — which is laudable but only takes Stillwater so far.
