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Runoff
As harvest draws near, Betty confronts a terrifying new reality and will go to desperate lengths to save her family when they are threatened with being forced from their land. An old friend, struggling to keep his own farm profitable by any means necessary-offers Betty a way out. She refuses to get involved, but as the pressures mount for her family and they are on the brink of eviction, her husband, Frank, reveals that he is seriously ill.
3 August 1966, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
31 August 1950, River Rouge, Michigan, USA
3 January 1938, Denver, Colorado, USA
19 October 1972, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
7 June 1944, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
1978, Bay d'Espoir, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
June 29, 2015
Levin dares something practically unheard of in modern Hollywood movies: she asks the audience to watch, feel, and come to their own conclusions.
June 25, 2015
An intelligent, sophisticated and mesmerizing slow-burn thriller that's grounded in humanism. Patient viewers will be rewarded the most.
June 26, 2015
This isn't a perfect movie... But I can say without hesitation that if you want to be able to say you were there when a great American filmmaker's career kicked off, you need to see Runoff.
June 21, 2015
This emotionally affecting film never loses sight of the ethical complexity of forsaking a community in the name of an individual.
June 25, 2015
Even when Levin's symbolism is a little on the nose, these elements are balanced with enough small details and moments that they blend in to the larger texture of the characters' lives.
July 23, 2015
The low energy pace and performances strive for naturalism but just don't achieve compelling tension or suspense.
June 23, 2015
The movie achieves an understated resonance through Levin's emotionally sensitive compositions and her clued-in portrayal of life in a middle-American farming community.
June 25, 2015
The 90-minute movie is a tightly compressed exploration of forces that make it next to impossible to operate a small business when a voracious corporation moves in for the kill.
June 27, 2015
A little too reluctant to take a stand against chemicals but worth seeing for its empathy for its main character who is forced to carry out a crime that puts her in league with Monsanto.
June 17, 2015
Intelligent and entertaining, Runoff moves its audience from what was perhaps a vague, wistful notion of the rural existence of family farming to witness the harsh realities of a tragically disappearing American way of life
August 07, 2015
Promising work that's worth checking out.
June 25, 2015
Truly, Runoff can be an uncomfortable film to watch -- both because Levin's subject matter is supposed to make us uncomfortable and because her film leaves so much untended, is in the end so uneven.
