River of Grass [Blu-ray]

Director: Kelly Reichardt Kelly Reichardt

Overview

In this film, Cozy is a cop's daughter and Lee Ray is a shady character. Lee Ray and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/26/2016
UPC:	0857490005196
Original Release:	1994
Rating:	NR
Source:	Oscilloscope
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:16:00
Sales rank:	34,076

Special Features

New feature-length Audio Commentary with Director Kelly Reichardt and Producer/Actor/Editor Larry Fessenden; Restoration Presentation; Theatrical Trailer; With an exclusive essay by film writer and curator Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Lisa Bowman	Cozy
Larry Fessenden	Lee Ray Harold
Dick Russell	Jimmy
Stan Kaplan	J.C.
Michael Buscemi	Doug
Lisa Robb	Actor
Tom Laverack	Actor
Bert Yaeger	Actor
Mary Glenn	Actor
Carol Flakes	Actor
Frances Reichardt	Actor,Actor
George Moore	Actor
Mannie Mack	Actor
Greg Shroeder	Bobby
Kyle Hawkins	Actor
Heather Florio	Actor,Actor,Actor
Duncan Young	Actor
Santo Fazio	Det. Ortiz
Monica Davidson	Actor
Sheila Korsi	Depressed Woman in Bar
Lou 'Spot' Perdomo	Actor
Barbara Bucci	Actor
Steven Lezak	Motel Loiterer
Robert Perry	Actor
Kerline Alce	Actor
Ricco Jackson	Actor
Robert Lawon	Actor
Carl Crowder	Actor
Barry Shore	Actor
T. Colin Dodd	Actor
Wayne Ferguson	Actor
Roz DeLisi	Actor
Mitch Lewis	Bar Guitarist
Patrick Cooke	Actor
Harry Epp	Actor
Robert Greenbaum	Actor
John Ulrich	Actor
Will Connelly	Actor
Matthew Sigal	Actor
Jerry Utter	Voices
Susan A. Stover	Voices

Technical Credits

Kelly Reichardt

Jesse Hartman

Kelly Reichardt	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Jesse Hartman	Producer,Screenwriter
Larry Fessenden	Producer

Editorial Reviews

The lovers-on-the-run genre gets a dry, humorous deconstruction in this film by first-time director Kelly Reichardt. Using all the elements of a typical road movie, this story refuses the romantic idealization inherent in such classics as Bonnie and Clyde, instead showing the protagonists in a more realistic light. Displacing the daring femme fatale is Cozy (Lisa Bowman), a housewife and mother who is shown doing gymnastics in the yard out of boredom. She meets Lee (Larry Fessenden), another lonely, disillusioned nobody, who is also trapped in a humdrum existence. When fate forces them together, they are presented with the idea of escape. Despite their seemingly criminal circumstances, Cozy and Lee are just too good-natured and average to become wrapped up in the cliché of the dangerous lovers. The characters are treated with care rather than recklessness, and even the obligatory highway cop gets a little heart. Cozy's deadpan narration perfectly captures her poignant stagnation with a gentle wit, and cinematographer Jim Denault uses the bleak Florida landscape well as a backdrop for hopeless wandering. The humor is both sad and sweet, telling of desperate loneliness coupled with a general slack, similar to the dry comedy in Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise. Also effective in personifying the loss, or lack, of one's dreams, is the character of Cozy's dad, Jimmy Ryder (Dick Russell), as an aging ex-cop who used to be a jazz drummer.