''Virginia Minnesota'' is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Stine and starring

Aurora Perrineau Aurora Perrineau is an American actress and model. She is best known for starring as Shana Elmsford in ''Jem and the Holograms'' (2015), the live-action film adaptation of the 1980s animated television series '' Jem'', Giselle Hammond in Blumh ...

and Rachel Hendrix.

Cast

as Addison * Rachel Hendrix as Lyle *Jessica Miesel as Brooke *Julia Keefe as Nakoda *

Susan Walters Susan Walters is an American actress, best known for her roles as Lorna Forbes on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC daytime soap opera ''Loving (TV series), Loving'' from 1983 to late 1986 and as Diane Jenkins on the CBS soap opera ''The Yo ...

as Suzette *Eyas Younis as Gabriel * Aaron Hill as Hunter *Daniel Stine as Hillman *Carl Palmer as Bill *Bradley Hasemeyer as Police Officer *Emma Reaves as Marcie *

Harold Perrineau Harold Perrineau (born August 7, 1963) is an American actor. His breakout role was in the independent film ''Smoke'' (1995), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He went on to appear as Mercutio ...

as the voice of Mister

Release

The film premiered at the

Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is an annual independent film festival held each March in San Jose, California and Redwood City, California. The international festival combines the cinematic arts with Silicon Valley’s innovation. It i ...

on March 2, 2018.

Reception

The film has a 71% rating on

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based on seven reviews. Sheri Linden of ''

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'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The tonal shifts among mystery, folklore, melodrama and satire are neither smooth nor productively rough, and the narrative core remains unclear, lost amid the surfeit of disconnected moving parts." Malik Adán of ''

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'' also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "While this is surely the stuff of romcom boilerplate narratives, ''Virginia Minnesota'' prefers to wade into darker waters for the sake of more compelling, everyday drama."

References

External links

* * {{Rotten Tomatoes, virginia_minnesota 2010s English-language films