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10/02/2020

Take Me to the River (2016)

A couple and their 17-year-old son travel from California to Nebraska for a mother's side family reunion. The son would like to come out as gay while there, but the mother is dead-set against it. When a young female cousin runs screaming with blood on her dress after being alone with Ryder (the son), tensions get very high -- as one would expect. What one doesn't expect is that the Californians would stay put, banishing their son to a shack on the property, rather than leaving immediately.

This whole movie was seriously skeevy. You know that something is going on beneath the surface, but for families to use children in a revenge plot for a long ago incident just went beyond the bounds of decency. Everyone lacks so much common sense, too. I felt dirty when this was finally over.

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