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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0043396060418
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: August 09, 2005
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 7530
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 11, 2005
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Off the Map avoids conventional drama (hardly any event leads to an outcome you could expect) but the lean, sharp dialogue and superb performances make this movie a rich, human comedy. A young girl named Bo, living in the New Mexico desert, rebels against her bohemian parents by reading Forbes magazine and applying for credit cards. Her father Charley (Sam Elliott, Tombstone) has sunk deep into a paralyzing depression; her resilient, industrious mother Arlene (Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger) alternates between gently supporting Charley and railing against his zombie-like state. Into this off-balance family comes a tax auditor (Jim True-Frost, Singles), who--after being stung by a bee and lapsing into a sudden fever--becomes an accidental catalyst for change. In her movie debut as Bo, Valentina de Angelis gives a wonderful performance, head and shoulders above most actors her age. Campbell Scott's direction, as with his first film Big Night, is warm but not sappy; he has a gift for letting a story wander without it ever getting lost. The New Mexico landscape glows in the sun and helps give Off the Map a quiet but mysterious vision of life. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Brilliantly Wonderful for the Heart!!!
Depression hits and it is such huge work trying to turn it all around and along comes this magic gift...WOW!
I found "Off The Map" so heart warmingly brilliant that I sat and watched it over again. I wanted to stay within the "given" within it all for-ever. I have never felt so loved and supported by a movie before.
To the Cast...THANK YOU!
To the ScreenPlay Writer ... Thank You!
To the Producer...Thank You!
To the Director ...Thank You!
I ... Read More
Rating: - Enchanting, mesmerizing, spiritually intense
The gentle rhythm of the movie is a gesture that penetrates the mysterious glow of nature with intense wisdom. I cannot recommend this movie enough. Director Campbell Scott accentuates the poetry of nature through a stark depiction of a land stripped of human adulteration. The movie is an adaptation of Joan Ackerman's play that centers on the isolated Groden family, Arlene (Joan Allen), Charley (Sam Elliott), and their precocious daughter Bo (Valentina de Angelis) who live in a state of depressed ... Read More
Rating:  - Pass the popcorn...and the prozac.
I wish Campbell Scott had realized how off-putting the "precocious" child actress in this film was. Every glance, every spoken word of her dialogue just made me cringe. I can't believe her forced performance didn't bother others more.
The plusses? Joan Allen is TERRIFIC. The photography is fantastic.
But the "BO" character? Man, if I lived around a precocious-every-word-of-dialogue-is-just-so-pert-and-perky-from-my-12-year-old-lips...I'd be catatonic and depressed like Sam ... Read More
Rating: - Great for NM lovers, artists, and folks longing to see a movie with no enemies
A beautiful movie set in northern New Mexico in a simple time. A family lives in the NM high desert rural land reminiscent of "the 60s" style living. The story is occasionally narrated through the eyes of the daughter, now adult. The acting is superb. It is movie that deals with depression, eocnomic hardship, challenge, and family issues without judgment, blame, or violence. An outsider joins the family and becomes involved in their lives in an integral way. It is refreshing to see a movie where ... Read More
Rating: - Off the Map
Beautifully shot and rich in emotion, "Map" is a film that quietly gets under your skin. Elliott is a revelation as Charley, a man carrying a nameless despair that's struck him dumb, while Allen is fabulous (no surprise) as philosophical bedrock Arlene. Young de Angelis also shines in a demanding juvenile role. A story about life's infinite possibilities and finding sustenance when and where you least expect it, Scott's movie is a quirky, heartwarming delight. Go off the map to see it.
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