A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
A messy, shallow, muddled morass of a Philadelphia crime story set in 1978 ...
– Tirdad Derakhshani,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
16 May 2014
rotten:
What's left is an awkward blend of tragedy and comedy, in a movie that doesn't feel as if it has earned the right to be either.
– Tom Keogh,
Seattle Times,
15 May 2014
rotten:
A fair amount of the film leaves you wondering about the categorizations it's courted as a dark comedy. If the tag legitimately applies, then it takes Slattery a while to find his footing, if he ever really does.