At Any Price
An ambitious Iowa seed farmer (Dennis Quaid) tries to get his resentful son (Zac Efron) interested in the family business, but the son has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. When the business is threatened by an unexpected crisis, the relationship between them is tested.
26 October 1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
13 December 1921, Hinckley, Illinois, USA
5 April 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 November 1936, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
29 May 1993, Santa Barbara, California, USA
18 October 1987, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
January 07, 2016
[A] handsome, slow-burning thriller ...
January 03, 2016
A glum, heavy-handed state-of-the-nation drama ...
May 17, 2013
Bahrani seems less interested in getting at the heart of a man who has sold his soul than he is in showing how the hard facts of modern farming have literally and figuratively changed the landscape.
January 01, 2016
Directed by Ramin Bahrani, Quaid gives a fine performance, but the drama reflects the flatness of the land it features.
May 16, 2013
Like the small farmers forced to kowtow to corporations, writer and director Ramin Bahrani chickens out. His melodramatic script reduces a global conflict to a Grain Belt "Glengarry Glen Ross."
May 24, 2013
Bahrani fills the frame with weathered faces and "At Any Price" feels like it unfolds in something close to the real America. But he wants to give us larger-than-life drama, and his strengths are life-sized.
May 10, 2013
It clumsily showcases an environmental issue -- in this case, the corporate strong-arm tactics used to promote GMOs -- through routine interpersonal drama.
May 16, 2013
Written and played with a little more subtlety, Henry and his contradictions could have been fascinating; as it is, "At Any Price" keeps us at a distance, gazing at characters who never quite come to life.
January 04, 2016
It won't be for everyone - the pacing is glacial at times - but At Any Price certainly deserves attention.
December 20, 2015
This engaging, low-key drama is a film about family, business and success.
June 21, 2013
The disappointment and malaise of a modern farmer's life comes through, but almost as an afterthought. As Bahrani makes clear, it's worth a more focused film.
January 03, 2016
It's an honest, grown-up, slightly earnest slice of rolled-sleeves Americana - something like the cinematic equivalent of a Steve Earle album.

