Long Bright River

Matt Roush says...

Emmy winner Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) stars in an emotionally compelling crime drama based on Liz Moore’s terrifically gritty novel. Seyfried is Mickey Fitzpatrick, a Philadelphia cop who patrols the depressed neighborhood she grew up in and on whose streets her drug-addicted sister Kacey (Ashleigh Cummings) has gone missing. Mickey’s search for Kacey and flashbacks to their tragic past provide a poignant framework for Mickey’s rogue investigation into a series of murders of forgotten street women just like Kacey. Mickey’s also a single mom to 8-year-old Thomas (the remarkable Callum Vinson), who yearns for more family connection, but Mickey’s messy personal life and dogged sense of duty make her one of the most intriguingly imperfect heroines since HBO‘s Mare of Easttown. The deeper Mickey digs into the corruption of the city, the better we understand her own sorrows and regrets in a suspenseful tearjerker.

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