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Middle Of Nowhere
A promising medical student must come to terms with her husband receiving an eight year prison sentence, which leads her on a journey of self-discovery in the process. She considers leaving him for a charming bus driver...
27 May 1969, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 April 1976, Oxford, England, UK
29 June 1961, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
28 April 1953, Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
June 28, 2013
Though writer-director Ava DuVernay avoids any and all cliché right up until the closing titles, I have no qualms ending this review with one: I wholeheartedly look forward to her next project.
October 18, 2012
A sluggish enterprise, not measured or languorous or full of detail, but plodding, with scenes that run too long and others that are unnecessary.
October 24, 2012
This is a tough-minded story of change that happens in almost imperceptibly tiny increments - as true growth so often does in reality.
January 12, 2015
DuVernay uses this situation as a light but poignant metaphor for Ruby's personal growth, as she finds a way to escape her own kind of prison.
March 31, 2015
Burrows deep into a lower working-class, primarily female African-American milieu and culture rarely presented onscreen with any sort of realism or understanding.
May 03, 2015
I should love this movie, but something about it kept me at arm's length.
February 08, 2013
Made by a black American woman, about a black American woman, it's a study of a culture where the matriarchs are strong by necessity and trapped by circumstance - adrift in the middle of nowhere.
March 14, 2015
This isn't about dramatic revelations and charge confrontations. DuVernay, who also wrote the original screenplay, has made a film about those moments lived between the decisions...
November 30, 2012
[A] hushed, tenderly observant drama about a young woman trying to do right by herself and her marriage while her husband is in prison.
October 19, 2012
This film is about a particular African-American experience, true, but it's also about the human experience. It will haunt you. It should.
February 08, 2013
A film remarkably true to life's haphazard rhythms.
June 16, 2016
Before directing Selma, Ava Duverny made Middle of Nowhere (2012), a small story about a woman who put her aspirations on hold when her husband goes to prison.