Plot Summary
An RV is nestled among the brush in the desert. Silence is broken by one alarming gunshot. Moments later, Darryl, a high schoolteacher, astride his motorcycle is seen. Ready to toss his failed first novel into a landfill, he stops and pulls it out of hissatchel. His motorcycle sputters and is out of fuel. He spies the lone RV, and goes over to get help. The van seems to be vacant.The door is unlocked and he steps inside to take shelter. As he finishes a phone call with his fiancée, promising to be on time fortheir engagement party that evening, Amelia emerges from the bedroom with gun in hand. Over Amelia's shoulder Darryl sees a bloody,lifeless man. Realizing Darryl has seen too much, Amelia announces that he will be her traveling companion. As the RV leaves itsmooring, a dead body decomposes in the back, a novel shrinks up in the front and two lost souls seek refuge and redemption on NewMexico's back roads.
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Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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89%- Reviews Counted: 9
- Fresh: 8
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 7.3/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: "R" is not about justice or redemption. You couldn't even call it a protest film about prison conditions, but it is very well made and persuasively acted.
Fresh: The helmers employ claustrophobic closeups to mirror the experience of an inmate arriving at the harsh institution and finding his options limited by more than just locked doors.
Fresh: Directors-screenwriters Lindholm and Noer are careful not to let the audience know more than their protagonist does, keeping them in the nerve-wrecking state of uncertainty and fear.
Fresh: Who knows better about prison life than someone who has experienced it firsthand?
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- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 2012
- 2011, Refuge Productions. Artwork © 2011, Celebrity Home Entertainment
