Wakefield (2016)

Directed by

Robin Swicord

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 454 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful suburban man secretly abandons his family and begins living in his attic. He observes his own home and the lives of his wife and children from hiding.

tenseisolatedmelancholicslow-burncontemplativeunsettlingpsychologicalquiet

What happens

Wakefield is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Robin Swicord and starring Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner. It is based on the 2008 short story of the same name by E. L. Doctorow published in The New Yorker, which was in turn inspired by the 1835 story of the same title by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2016 and was released in the United States on May 19, 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Hush (2016)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• We Don't Belong Here (2016)
• Three Days in August (2016)
• Buried Child (2016)
• The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
• Monday Nights at Seven (2016)
• The Free World (2016)