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At Any Price

2012

Ramin Bahrani

Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Clancy Brown ...

5.1

1,132

Drama Midwestern seed farmer Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid), the now middle-aged son of a brusque, unforgiving old patriarch (Red West), wants nothing more in the world than to have his son Dean (Zac Efron) take over the family business. But Dean has other plans. Not one for the patience-testing, decidedly unglorious life of a farmer, he dreams of a career as a race-car driver. Henry, however, is so preoccupied with living up to the weighty ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A great film. The best new american director of recent years. Dennis Quaid gives the performance of a lifetime."	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"While the drama comes up a little short in emotional payoff, this is a thoughtful, nuanced film that vividly evokes life in a Midwestern community (...). It offers a rueful snapshot of the changing face of a quintessential element of American life"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Some of the acting isn't bad, but the story is messy and unsatisfying (...), the ending is an outrageous fudge and the lead performance from Dennis Quaid is strange to say the least (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"If 'At Any Price' overstates its points, they are still worth making. And the hot-wired performances by Mr. Quaid and Mr. Efron drive them home in a movie that sticks to your ribs and stays in your head"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Bahrani (...) shoots himself in the foot by throwing in a contrived plot device that creates drama at the expense of credibility. Suddenly, we're isolated from a film that had made us believe. It's a breach of trust that comes at too high a price (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU

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