Hot Trailer: ‘Middle Of Nowhere’

COMMENTS (29)

• This trailer looks really funny! I love little mV’s about real people!

  Scott
  @BarbarianComic

  Comment by scott — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 6:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• saw this movie at sundance – fell asleep

  Comment by snoozer — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 6:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Of course you did. You’re a typical, uppity white who thinks Beasts of the Southern Wild was the most brilliant portrayal of African-American life ever put to celluloid. LMAO. You people.

    Comment by iknowyou — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 6:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• saw at sundance on a fluke and really feel in love with this little jewel. glad it will see the light of day.

  Comment by laureng — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 6:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Loved Omari Hardwick in KICK ASS and EVERYDAY BLACK MAN. And the female lead Emayatzy looks like a rising star. Saw her in a short film on iTunes where she fell in love with an Asian guy. Real Black drama is sorely lacking at the B.O. and this fills a niche.

  Comment by Thalmus Rasulaah — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 6:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Thalmus?! Man, what have you been doing since your stint as Raj’s father on WHAT’S HAPPENING and NEW JACK CITY?!!!

    Comment by Joe L — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 7:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good on Participant for putting out something to counter that travesty of black womanhood known as The Help. I’ll see this one. I refused to see The Help to this day.

  Comment by Brenda Frazier-Ross — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 6:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Ditto.

    Comment by sickofthiscrap — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 9:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Omari who? He’s a joke! Saw this movie too and was catching some Z’s!

  Comment by The Truth — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 7:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• this movie looks SO boring.

  Comment by Not A Critic — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 7:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Beautiful trailer for a beautiful film.

  Comment by Patrice — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 8:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• from slave movies to this. Let’s see, who’s the target audience? Dumb black women wasting their lives on loser thugs, and white people who think all blacks live the ghetto and live “that life.”
  SMH

  Comment by seriously — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 9:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • “dumb black women wasting their lives on loser thugs” – the ignorance of your post saddens this black woman. We are so easy to reduce to your stereotypes aren’t we? If you only knew what we thought of you. Congratulating the people behind this film who will have to brave this nonsense. Keep your head up. I will be in line opening day.

    Comment by Notthatserious — Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 11:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • I’m all for quality movies but this looks boring. Don’t know why “serious” filmmakers thing people sitting and talking is interesting. And yes, I saw the movie and it’s some stupid girl in love with a tatted thug in prison. That is not the reality of any black woman I know. And i know a few including the ones in my family.

      Comment by ANON — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 10:08am PDT  Reply to this post

      • As far as the “realities” go, you might want to understand current incarceration rates of African-American males and the MILLIONS of black women who are left behind before you go talking about what’s real and what’s not.

        Comment by youlie — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 7:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• How exciting — a wonderful film that was a highlight of Sundance this year. The untold story of the effects of locking away a huge part of our society’s population… and of those grappling to move on and move up in an honorable way.

  Comment by The Schwartz — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 1:50am PDT  Reply to this post

• I saw this movie at the la film festival and it blew my mind. Fantastic. Subtle, layered and far more nuanced than anything else I saw at Sundance. This is an incredible gem.

  Comment by Awesome film — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 2:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• As a black woman, I think this ‘film’ looks like garbage and I will be avoiding it, just like I skipped the help.

  Who should the smart, pretty young woman choose – the broke bus driver or the convicted felon?

  choices, choices . . . . . . . .

  NEXT

  Comment by Anon — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 3:45am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I see a hater. LMAO.

    Comment by hellosamepersonhatingonthefilmhowareya — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 7:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • What’s your issue with the film? The themes of this film may not be my reality, but it’s true for some people. Therefore, I will not discredit the efforts on the director to shine a light on women who go through such issues daily. People are so quick to com out swinging, but don’t even know the whole story or the premise behind it.

    Comment by Suz — Sunday July 29, 2012 @ 5:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Saw it at Sundance. Would have walked out if I wasn’t sitting in the middle of the theater.

  Comment by Sleepy — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 9:51am PDT  Reply to this post

• This film offered me another excellent Black female character from Ms. Duvernay who has to make emotionally strong life choices, and this filmmaker is far from boring. It scares people to see these kind of films with people of color made by an African-American. Take that into consideration as you read the pithy comments of someone purporting to be African-American on this board who is clearly not. I raise my glass to Ms. Duvernay for this fine picture and to Sundance for honoring it. I watched it with a rapt audience of about 100 African-American journalists at NABJ and it had me from the very first scene to long after the credits rolled. Thank you.

  Comment by Olu — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 7:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Very excellent film deserving of an audience that will appreciate it. That obviously won’t be the Deadline comments section audience but real people with an appreciation for fine filmmaking and stories beyond their own window will enjoy this. Good job Participant.

  Comment by Roland — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 8:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m not condemning it but another aggrieved black woman movie featuring a main character dealing with some convict? Why?

  Comment by ModernMisanthrope — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 9:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Name three other dramas featuring a black woman in the lead role dealing with the epidemic of incarceration. Waiting.

    Comment by Batteram — Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 11:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Three? Try one besides this one. Movies focused on Afro-American women characters are particularly limited around important issues such as this matter. ModernMisanthrope’s comment is utterly ignorant of cinema and society.

      Comment by Anonymous — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 3:27am PDT  Reply to this post

• How about name just one? One film dedicated to this issue with a Afro-American female lead character is not even something that comes to mind.

  Comment by Beth L. — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 3:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• Looking forward to this one.

  Comment by Chris W. — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 12:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I saw this film at NABJ and it took my breath away, it’s a very beautiful, incredibly moving piece that stayed with me long after it had ended.

  Comment by Starla — Tuesday August 7, 2012 @ 8:21am PDT  Reply to this post