Based on Joan Ackermann's play, "Off the Map" is set in 1974 in a lone-prairie corner of New Mexico where the Groden family lives a hippie-ish existence amid a John Ford landscape. As far as mainstream Hollywood is concerned, a delicate, funny, character-driven movie like this is, well, off the map. It simply doesn't exist in the same universe as vast opening weekends and fast-food tie-ins. Hollywood's loss. Ours, too. Read the full review
In a lone-prairie corner of New Mexico in 1974, a family's hippie-ish Eden (no phone, no electricity) is altered when an IRS agent shows up, looking for seven years of their tax returns. The couple's 11-year-old daughter, who desperately wants all the material things her parents have rejected, hopes this will be her conduit to the outside world.
Director: Campbell Scott
Starring: Amy Brenneman, Valentina de Angelis, Joan Allen, Sam Elliott, Jim True-Frost
Run time: 105 minutes
Release date: April 22, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for nudity and thematic elements.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"Quiet and quirky, yet refreshingly unpretentious ... imbued with a sense of acceptance and getting on with it that's wonderfully generous and thoroughly American."
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