In the movie October Country everyone has a family that has ghosts or skeletons in the family closet. This family unfortunately has more than most and it is shot over one Halloween from one year to the next. This movie creates a grim portrait of a unique family who are unique but also one that is sadly aware of the essential struggles of America’s working class. The October Country movie was created and filmed in both universal story of a family that was going through those exact struggles.
A portrait of compassion and compelling people struggling with the forces that tear at homes and relationships of those just like the people in the movie. Many people who have seen this movie agree that for a documentary it is heart wrenching to say the least.
Combining the access only available to a family member who had an intimate visual style of the filmmaking that was encountering the family’s reality for the first time. October Country the movie gives an account of how some families actually live in the world and America as they know it and not as we know it. Some deal with domestic abuse, war trauma, sexual abuse, and molestation and the world seems to look the other way. As we all do our best to face our ghosts and those skeletons hiding in our closets we look through a much broader glass than those who are looking at the family in the October Country movie. Many people reach and do what they can to live for the American dream but for some individuals that dream can be a nightmare without hesitation. In essence, now Americans are starting to come against some of the ghosts that are mentioned in this documentary such as the abuse and the violence but it takes more than one documentary, it takes people who will listen and care
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Genre: Documentary
Starring: The Mosher Family
Director: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher
Writer: Not Available
Running Time: Not Available
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Distributors: Wishbone Films
Official Website: OctoberCountryFilm.com
Photos: Not Available
Review: Not Available
Trailers: Not Available
