On Monday, April 25, 2011 I attended the gala World Premiere of Magic Valley at the Tribeca Film Festival. The sold-out screening took place at the AMC Loews Village 7. The film was a US entry in the Viewpoints section.
Writer/director Jaffe Zinn has assembled a tight ensemble cast of seasoned veterans for his stunning debut feature, set in a bucolic Ohio farming town at the height of harvest season. Kyle Gallner (star of two of my 2010 Top Picks — Beautiful Boy and Cherry) is outstanding as a mysterious, shy teen with a shocking secret destined to turn the townsfolk on their heads. Along with standout performances from Matthew Gray Gubler (Dr. Spencer Reid on CBS’ Criminal Minds) and the legendary Scott Glenn, Zinn’s story takes a patchwork of seemingly random series of events and weaves them into a classic enigmatic small-town nightmare.
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