Fresh
"The Details" is not just entertaining, but potentially useful.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The Details
Doing the right thing has never gone so wrong.
2012 · 1h 41m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Jacob Aaron Estes
Overview
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
46%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As the title suggests, it's all in the details, which writer-director Estes provides in large if not always convincing doses.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Rotten
It's hard to make a fine actress like Laura Linney look off-key and shrill, but "The Details" manages to do just that. It's hardly an accomplishment.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Rotten
"The Details" cancels itself out by being too campy to take seriously and too tragic to laugh at.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten
"The Details" wears its quirky heart on its sleeve, signaling (and smirking at) its own silliness, at every opportunity, with an intrusively antic score that makes everything sound like a giant joke.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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