| Never Get Outta the Boat | |
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| Music: | Victor Indrizzo |
| Cinematography: | Robert Benavides |
| Editing: | Terilyn A. Shropshire |
| Studio: | Blow-Up Pictures New Crime Productions Lot 47 Films |
| Director: | Paul Quinn |
| Producer: | Jason Kliot Joana Vicente |
| Distributor: | Columbia TriStar Home Video Lot 47 Films |
| Runtime: | 111 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Never Get Outta the Boat is a 2002 American drama film directed by Paul Quinn, starring Lombardo Boyar, Darren E. Burrows, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Nick Gillie, Devon Gummersall, Harry Lennix, Alley Mills, Sebastian Roché and William Sanderson.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2002.[1]
Robert Koehler of Variety wrote that the film is "adept at creating a sense of imbalance and tension" and praised the cinematography, the script and the performances of Boyar, Burrows, Lennix, Gillie, Roché and Lennix.[2] Jay Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel wrote: "Its gritty, aggressively edgy atmosphere holds your attention as you begin to find yourself caring about these troubled men."[3] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that the film "tells a familiar story uncommonly well" and praised the "fully human" characters.[4]
Cornelia de Bruin of the Chicago Reader wrote that while the film "succumbs to genre conventions", it is "buoyed by a strong ensemble".[5] Cornelia de Bruin of the Taos News wrote that while the film "goes nowhere new", it is "brilliantly acted".[6] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "ends up as guilty of posturing and manufacturing synthetic realities as those cliched productions from which it believes it is distancing itself", and criticised the cinematography, the "jittery" editing and the performances.[7]