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A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
24 June 1975, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1978
12 December 1962, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
12 June 1978, Readfield, Maine, USA
21 December 1946, New York City, New York, USA
March 07, 2016
While we're never surprised at the outcomes, we're satisfied because few if any notes ring false.May 01, 2014
For all its missteps, the film feels authentic. Through thick and thin, it stubbornly maintains a thorny integrity.May 01, 2014
Directors Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly are documentarians making their fiction debut, and they pack the movie with seemingly authentic, nitty-gritty details about life in the potato country of far northern Maine.May 08, 2014
The languid pace effectively communicates the characters' crushing boredom, yet the dramatic interest never flags.April 30, 2014
Teenagers in a dead-end town aren't exactly a trailblazing topic.May 19, 2014
Casper and Dominic are modern everymen -- theirs are not at all unique experiences, which is why their story resounds so loudly.May 01, 2014
Beneath the Harvest Sky never finds a proper balance between its two halves. They never cohere properly, and the results pitch and lurch rather than harmonize.June 19, 2014
A story that unfolds nearly as slowly as the potatoes ripen in the fields, the charismatic performances of the two young leads make all the difference.October 20, 2014
The performances in "Beneath the Harvest Sky" are better than the movie itself, an exceedingly derivative teen melodrama that too often loses focus and meanders off on lugubrious tangents with its criminal subplots.May 01, 2014
An authentic representation of teenage angst. Beneath the Harvest Sky offers a genuine view of what it's like to grow up in rural poverty.May 08, 2014
While the climax of Beneath the Harvest Sky is a jumble of crosscutting, thunderstorms, and an inconveniently collapsing house, the movie never loses the pulse of people and tragedies it knows too well.April 29, 2014
Gaudet and Pullapilly have a background in documentaries, and there's a convincing naturalism to their storytelling.