''Magic Valley'' is a 2011 American drama film directed by Jaffe Zinn, starring

Scott Glenn Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26 between 1938 and 1942) is an American actor. His roles have included Bill Lester in '' She Came to the Valley'' (1979), Pfc Glenn Kelly in ''Nashville'' (1975), Wes Hightower in '' Urban Cowboy'' (1980), as ...

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and

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Cast

as Ed Halfner *

as T.J. Waggs *

as Martha Garabrant *

as Jerry Garabrant *

as Mok *

as Jimmy Duvante * Daniel Frandson as Chad * Landon Abercrombie as Jason *

Johnny Lewis Jonathan Kendrick Lewis (October 29, 1983 – September 26, 2012), also credited as Johnny K. Lewis, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for playing Kip "Half-Sack" Epps in the first two seasons of the FX series ''Sons ...

as John

Release

The film premiered at the

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on 31 October 2011. The film was released to VOD on 9 April 2013.

Reception

Ronnie Scheib of ''

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'' wrote that the film "puts its unique stamp on a ubiquitous dead-child theme". Jordan Mintzer of ''

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'' praised the performances of Glenn and Henke while writing that the film is "not quite the sum of its parts" and "never builds into either a nail-biting investigation nor into a truly captivating mediation on life and death in America’s heartland" despite "many well-executed sequences".

References

External links

* * {{rotten-tomatoes, magic_valley, Magic Valley American drama films 2011 drama films 2011 films Films set in Idaho Films shot in Idaho