A Dark Place
A Dark Place is a 2019 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Simon Fellows and starring Andrew Scott, Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough.
Plot
When a local boy goes missing, Donald Devlin, a small-town sanitation worker on the autism spectrum, dives headlong into the mystery in an attempt to solve it.Cast
- Andrew Scott as Donald Devlin
- Bronagh Waugh as Donna Reutzel
- Denise Gough as Linda Connolly
- Michael Rose as Sheriff Benjamin Mooney
- Christa Bell Campbell as Wendy Connolly
- Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Betty Devlin
- Andrew Massett as Dr. Joel Pomorski
- Griff Furst as Max Himmler
- Jason Davis as Jerry Zeigler
- Kate Forbes as Patty Zeigler
- Cory Scott Allen as Randy Helsel
Reception
Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars. Ben Travis of Empire awarded the film three stars out of five. Stephen Carty of Radio Times also awarded the film three stars out of five.
Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The result is diverting enough, yet ends up more a mildly offbeat time-filler than something memorable." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Scott's strong, startling performance is the most effective element of Simon Fellows' offbeat crime thriller."