A dead end girl in a dead end town graduates from high school and begins to reflect on the Father she never knew. Considering college, while also considering getting a car and dumoing her boyfriend, In Country is a failed attempt for everything. With a backdrop of a southern town where every white male in thir 30's wants to have sex with Smantha, who, is a recent high school graduate with no job, no skills, no direction and has Daddy issues. Her pointless post sex scene and endless attempts to run around town wearing shorts and tank top adds nothing to her struggle as a character. Emily Lloyd does not capture any audience who would care about her story. With that said, Bruce Willis is the only character worth watching and he is hardly in the movie. Which makes you question thoughout the movie, what the hell is this a story about? Vietnam? A coming of age story about an 18 year old girl? A town called Hopewell where there is no hope and nobody is well? This movie is beneath Norman Jewison who tries to tell a story with a plot and characters that fall flat.
Review of In Country
