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1/29/2011

Down Terrace (2010)

Although IMDb, the Netflix sleeve, and most critics dub this a "black comedy," I couldn't find anything funny here.

Here's what I *think* the story was: a father and his middle-aged son, some low-management types in a loose criminal organization, are released from prison. The minute they get back to their rundown cookie-cutter home, which they share with the father's matter-of-factly humorless wife, they start wondering whose snitching put them away. The prison pen-pal of the son shows up pregnant, adding to the tension, and people start getting killed. And sometimes there are folky jam sessions because that's how they do.

I was bored, annoyed, confused, and never entertained. But the acting wasn't bad, so there's that.

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