This is a bunch of Cornwall cornbread, an assemblage of fusty slob/snob cliches dressed up in fancy culottes and sock garters. The visual period detail is sumptuous of course, but so far, the characters are wan silhouettes lost amongst verdant set dressing.
- Richard Jenkins plays a career fast-food worker whose pride in his job is upended as he trains his young replacement in Andrew Cohn's serio-comedy about the politics of class, identity and race.
Depicting the struggle for survival of a young woman who has the unfortunate luck to encounter a homicidal stalker on the sparsely populated highways of the Pacific Northwest, Alone proves a highly effective genre exercise.
