Refuge (film)

Plot

After her parents disappear, Amy drops out of college to care for her two younger siblings. Sam, a man with whom Amy has had a one-night stand, requests to rent space at Amy's house, and a romance develops between the two.

Cast

Production

Filming took place in Southampton, New York, in February 2011 and took about a month.

Release

Refuge premiered at the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival.

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 25% of eight surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 5.2/10. Metacritic rated it 34/100 based on six reviews. John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "sincere but unconvincing drama" that suffers in the adaptation to film. Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called it "a fragmentary, unconvincing effort to trace the emergence of a familial bond". Sheri Linden of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Explained rather than inhabited, the characters are half-formed, and their low-grade depression infects the underpowered storytelling."