Briar Patch (alternatively titled Plain Dirty) is a 2002 American romantic thriller drama film directed by Zev Berman, starring Dominique Swain, Henry Thomas, Arie Verveen, James Urbaniak and Karen Allen.[1]

Briar Patch
Directed byZev Berman
Written byDeborah Pryor
Produced bySam Froelich
Andrea Magder
Starring
CinematographyScot Kevan
Edited byMartin Apelbaum
Wayde Faust
Eric Strand
Music byNathan Barr
Production
companies
Down Home Entertainment
Tonic Films
Release date
  • April 2002 (2002-04) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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Reception

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Contactmusic.com gave the film a rating of 2/5 wrote, "This boring melodrama has little going for it, proving once again that no one will ever give Swain the chance to appear in a movie that doesn't suck out loud."[2]

Film Threat wrote that the film is "so bleak that it actually fails to satisfy, and sympathy is hard to come by for any of the characters, let alone Inez."[3]

Scott Foundas of Variety called the film a "Southern Gothic melodrama so deep-fried you can just about feel your arteries hardening", and wrote that it "might have worked as a rollicking Tennessee Williams send-up, if only the filmmakers weren’t so unwaveringly straight-faced."[4]

References

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  1. ^ McClain, Buzz (29 March 2004). "Plain Dirty". Video Business. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Plain Dirty". Contactmusic.com. 1 November 2005. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  3. ^ "BRIAR PATCH". Film Threat. 5 May 2004. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  4. ^ Foundas, Scott (18 February 2003). "Briar Patch". Variety. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
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