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LAKE CITY Send This Review to a Friend
Sissy Spacek’s acting ability makes it possible for her to hold her head up with a measure of dignity even in a film that is as much of a mess as “Lake City.” She plays a mother who is disturbed at something that happened in the past and also has issues with her son, who is being hounded by menacing drug dealers.
The setting is a town in Virginia, where Spacek as Maggie has a farm she is thinking of selling. Her wayward son, Billy, played by Troy Garity, returns home with a young boy. The screenplay by Hunter Hill and Perry Moore, who also shared directorial duties, becomes melodramatic in a manner that leaves very little believable.
Worse, one is hard pressed to care for any of the characters, leaving us only to appreciate the determination of Spacek to make Maggie as real as possible in what amounts to a misfire of a drama. Other cast members include Rebecca Romijn, David Mathews, Keith Carradine, Colin Ford, Barry Corbin and Drea De Matteo. A Screen Media Films release.
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