''A Dark Place'' (also titled ''Steel Country'') is a 2019 British-American mystery thriller film directed by

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and starring Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough.

Plot

When a local boy goes missing, Donald Devlin (Andrew Scott), a small-town sanitation worker on the autism spectrum, dives headlong into the mystery in an attempt to solve it.

Cast

* Andrew Scott as Donald Devlin * Bronagh Waugh as Donna Reutzel * Denise Gough as Linda Connolly * Michael Rose as Sheriff Benjamin Mooney * Christa Bell Campbell as Wendy Connolly * Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Betty Devlin * Andrew Massett as Dr. Joel Pomorski * Griff Furst as Max Himmler * Jason Davis as Jerry Zeigler * Kate Forbes as Patty Zeigler * Cory Scott Allen as Randy Helsel

Reception

The film has 62% rating on

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. Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars. Ben Travis of ''

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'' awarded the film three stars out of five. Stephen Carty of ''

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'' also awarded the film three stars out of five. Dennis Harvey of '' Variety'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable." Frank Scheck of ''

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'' also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Scott's strong, startling performance is the most effective element of Simon Fellows' offbeat crime thriller."

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dark Place, A 2010s mystery thriller films British mystery thriller films American mystery thriller films 2019 films 2019 thriller films 2010s English-language films Films directed by Simon Fellows 2010s American films 2010s British films English-language mystery thriller films