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- This evenly paced drama holds interest with its uneasy character dynamics, interesting milieu and effective performances, though a story so frequently on the verge of violence ought to build more tension than Burris manages, while flashback elements that presumably worked on the printed page feel awkwardly integrated here.
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Jan 9, 2015 · This adaptation of Ron Rash's novel about a 17-year old who gets entangled with drug dealers in 1970s North Carolina has atmosphere to spare and a great Steve Earle score, but never quite rises to the height of its ambitions.
Jan 7, 2015 · Starring Jeremy Irvine ( War Horse) as a troubled 17-year-old dropout who becomes involved with two drug dealers embroiled in an ultimately bloody feud, The World Made Straight has atmosphere...
- THR Staff
Jan 8, 2015 · “The World Made Straight” is the debut feature from director David Burris, who does an impressive job with good but tricky material. Based on the novel by Ron Rash, the film is moody and...
- Movie Critic
Jan 8, 2015 · This adaptation of Ron Rash’s 2006 novel about some hard-luck folk in 1970s rural Appalachia holds interest--though a story so frequently on the verge of violence ought to build more tension.
- Dennis Harvey
The World Made Straight is a southern gothic novel by Ron Rash. Published in 2006, it was made into a movie in 2015. The novel tells the story of Travis Shelton, a teenager living in a small town in North Carolina in the 1970s.
Jan 5, 2015 · Awash in sepia tone, a flashback to a rainy Civil War skirmish in North Carolina, known as the Shelton Laurel Massacre, provides the opening for The World Made Straight. A Confederate squad leads a group of unarmed, haggard Union sympathizers to a slippery riverbank, where they’re then swiftly shot dead, including, most tragically, a young ...
Adapted from Ron Rash’s 2006 novel by writer Shane Danielsen and directed by David Burris, THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT is a slow, methodical, atmospheric burn that celebrates the gravitas of performances from the likes of Jeremy Irvine and Noah Wyle.
