The Violent Heart

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The Violent Heart

2021,

1h 47m,

Mystery & Thriller/

Drama

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53%

17 Reviews

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79%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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79%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Fifteen years after the murder of his older sister, 24-year-old Daniel (2020 Emmy nominee Jovan Adepo) finds himself falling for Cassie (Grace Van Patten), an outgoing high school senior, in this Romeo & Juliet-style thriller set in the American heartland.

Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

Feb 20, 2021

2/4

...our emotional investment in these often thinly drawn characters has plummeted like GameStop stock.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

Feb 19, 2021

2/4

The problem with The Violent Heart isn't that it goes too far, it's that it doesn't go far enough.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

Feb 19, 2021

Like the two lovers at its center, his film is never given the chance to become what it's striving to be.

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Thom Ernst

Original Cin

Apr 15, 2021

C-plus

There are some great performances here by Lukas Haas, Mary J. Blige, Jovan Adepo and Grace Van Patten, but the strength of their efforts is helpless against a script that plods towards its preposterous conclusion.

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

Apr 15, 2021

3/5

In the end The Violent Heart succumbs to melodrama, but before the climax sucks the life out of the story, it is an interesting look at legacy and how the weight of the past can slowly crush a person's spirit.

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

Mar 4, 2021

2.5/4

The Violent Heart comes so close to being substantial and great that it's almost worse when it makes a hard left into its revelations...

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Kirun Sanga

Director

Jovan Adepo

Daniel

Grace Van Patten

Cassie

Lukas Haas

Joseph

Mary J. Blige

Nina

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Helen

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Synopsis

Fifteen years after the murder of his older sister, 24-year-old Daniel (2020 Emmy nominee Jovan Adepo) finds himself falling for Cassie (Grace Van Patten), an outgoing high school senior, in this Romeo & Juliet-style thriller set in the American heartland.

Director: Kirun Sanga
Producer: Dan Cohen, P. Jennifer Dana, Shawn Levy, Tobey Maguire, Edward L. McDonnell, Matthew Plouffe, Mark Roberts
Screenwriter: Kirun Sanga
Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
Production Co: 21 Laps Entertainment, 3311 Productions, Material Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 19, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 19, 2021
Runtime: 1h 47m

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