Coldwater

R 6.4
2014 1 hr 44 min Drama , Thriller

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.

  • Cast:
    P.J. Boudousqué , James C. Burns , Chris Petrovski , Octavius J. Johnson , Stephanie Simbari , Scott MacArthur , Raquel Gardner

Reviews

UnowPriceless
2014/08/15

hyped garbage

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Salubfoto
2014/08/16

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

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PiraBit
2014/08/17

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Jonah Abbott
2014/08/18

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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cmovies-99674
2014/08/19

PROS: An obvious pro is the acting. There are a ton of things a movie needs to have to be good. For romance movies its plot development, for comedies it's creativity, for horrors it build up of tension, but every movie needs acting for it to be good. It is the universal pro for all movies. And this movie exemplified that pro. Every character was genuine, and felt like a real person. This is so rare to find actors who can instill both terror and joy into the audience with ease. I felt that every action he did was done with purpose and was driven by more than just one emotion, which is likely in real life but difficult in acting. Those bonds that the characters allowed us to build throughout the plot granted us to fell something deeper when the film resolved. You waited and waited to get to the end, and when you did all you could do was just breathe out in relief. That quality of serenity that the movie gave was a beautiful contrast to the hysteria the rest of the film showed.CONS: The small con would be with the build up of tension. I wouldn't necessary qualify this movie as a strict horror, more like a psychological drama thriller, but there still needed to be more action. The movie all together was terrific, but maybe just a tad bit more intensity. Not a ton! but just a wee bit more.www.chorror.com

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Dale Haufrect
2014/08/20

"Coldwater" is one hot film. It is from 2013, and it is an independent film currently available on NetFlix Instant Download Streaming. The director is Vincent Grashaw. And it is written by Vincent Grashaw and Mark Penney. The cast includes P.J. Boudousque, James C. Burns, Chris Petrovski, Octavius J. Johnson, Nicholas Bateman, Stephanie Simbari, Mackenzie Sidwell Graff, Clayton LaDue, Tommy Nash, Scott MacArthar, Zach Selwyn, Raquel Gardner, Douglas Bernnett, Josh Kelling, Chauncey Leopardi, Jesse Saler, Michael Rousselef, Brandon Bilotta, Richard Shemer, Jammie Patton and Joe Bilotta. The story is depressing one of young men incarcerated in a juvenile detention center and the mistreatment that they have to endure. Many such centers exist in the U.S. I gave it 7 stars. Dale Haufrect

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ddcharbon
2014/08/21

This film has a political agenda, one I happen to agree with. That is, there's something wrong with juvenile detention facilities that are de facto concentration camps, that have no legal oversight or laws pertaining to them and where many young men have died over the last thirty years and whose only justification for this legal carte blanche is that the parents are the ones "sentencing" their kids there. The torture is certainly disturbing. But unlike one of the reviewers, I don't see much in the way of character development here. And while the young actor--who is the spitting image of Ryan Gosling (he even _acts_ like him)--does a good job; he develops along very predictable lines. The other characters are fundamentally flat, especially the Colonel who remains a cipher throughout the film: we never learn really why he's such an asshole or what he thinks about his own asshole behavior. Character development for him turns out to be drinking more in the film's third act and fondling his pistol with suicidal thoughts. The film ends very disturbingly and certainly leaves a mark, as it were. But the final confrontation between Brad and the Colonel is absolutely wordless and without much depth--a problem with much of the film. I think it won at the film festivals for the disturbing violence yoked to its liberal politics, not for its storytelling.

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tony-136-427671
2014/08/22

I am supposed to submit 10 lines of text in order to post a review, this is hard to do when the whole movie can be summed up in a few words. I have indeed watched this movie and it is well done from a production standpoint and I was intrigued watching it however I noticed from the get go the political connotation of the movie from the start with the showing of the camp commander as a ex-Desert Storm Vet. This film was produced by the liberals in Hollywood in an attempt to further discredit the United States Military in the same manner consisted with the current regimes attempt to decimate the military. Hollywood is nothing but a mouthpiece of the tyrannical administration occupying the peoples house. This all being said to consume 10 lines, the whole move can be summed up as follows.Military = evil Criminal = good

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