Fresh
A disconcerting and challenging film. It leaves you wondering. How cool is that?
Tom Long, Detroit News
Stone
Some People Tell Lies. Others Live Them.
2010 · 1h 45m · R
Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
John Curran
Overview
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Rotten
You can feel the movie's gears grinding throughout, first in the rote suspense mechanics and later in the ham-fisted religiosity (conveyed through an endless soundtrack of evangelistic talk radio).
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Stone is that rare film that refuses to be easy.
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
As in every good dialogue-driven film, talk equals action. The excitement here is sparked by the verbal and gestural give-and-take between the actors.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
An ambiguous film boasting a quartet of mesmerizing performances...
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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