Never Get Outta the Boat

2002 American film

Lombardo Boyar
Darren E. Burrows
Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Nick Gillie
Devon Gummersall
Harry Lennix
Alley Mills
Sebastian Roché
William Sanderson

CinematographyRobert BenavidesEdited byTerilyn A. ShropshireMusic byVictor Indrizzo

Production
companies

Blow-Up Pictures
New Crime Productions
Lot 47 Films

Distributed byColumbia TriStar Home Video
Lot 47 Films

Release date

7 September 2002 (2002-09-07) (Toronto International Film Festival)

Running time

111 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Never Get Outta the Boat is a 2002 American drama film directed by Paul Quinn, starring Lombardo Boyar, Darren E. Burrows, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Nick Gillie, Devon Gummersall, Harry Lennix, Alley Mills, Sebastian Roché and William Sanderson.

Cast

Lombardo Boyar as Cesar
Darren E. Burrows as Franky
Thomas Jefferson Byrd as William Ellis
Nick Gillie as Joe
Devon Gummersall as Julian
Harry Lennix as Brandon
Alley Mills as Jean
Sebastian Roché as Soren
William Sanderson as Clarence
Chadwick Palmatier as Henry
Shawnee Smith as Dawn
Patrice Pitman Quinn as Sylvia
Emilio Rivera as Angel
Maile Flanagan as Laura
Michael Byrne as Manager
Lynn Collins as Stacy
Érica García as Rosa
Ashley Hamilton as Joe the Drummer
Kimberly Huie as Dana
Nikolai Kinski as Saturn
Allan F. Nicholls as Older Man on Phone

Release

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2002.^[1]

Reception

Robert Koehler of Variety wrote that the film is "adept at creating a sense of imbalance and tension" and praised the cinematography, the script and the performances of Boyar, Burrows, Lennix, Gillie, Roché and Lennix.^[2] Jay Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel wrote: "Its gritty, aggressively edgy atmosphere holds your attention as you begin to find yourself caring about these troubled men."^[3] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that the film "tells a familiar story uncommonly well" and praised the "fully human" characters.^[4]

Cornelia de Bruin of the Chicago Reader wrote that while the film "succumbs to genre conventions", it is "buoyed by a strong ensemble".^[5] Cornelia de Bruin of the Taos News wrote that while the film "goes nowhere new", it is "brilliantly acted".^[6] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "ends up as guilty of posturing and manufacturing synthetic realities as those cliched productions from which it believes it is distancing itself", and criticised the cinematography, the "jittery" editing and the performances.^[7]

References

^ Friedman, Josh (13 September 2002). "First Person; A Tourist and Film Fan Finds 'People's Fest' Is Aptly Named". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ Koehler, Robert (11 September 2002). "Never Get Outta the Boat". Variety. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ Boyar, Jay (7 March 2003). "`NEVER GET OUTTA THE BOAT'". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ "Hi-Pointe". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 17 November 2003. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ Jones, J.R. "Never Get Outta the Boat". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ de Bruin, Cornelia (16 April 2003). "Never Get Outta the Boat". Taos News. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ Rechtschaffen, Michael (11 September 2002). "Never Get Outta the Boat". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 27 January 2024.