FILM: Claire in Motion DIRECTORS: Annie J. Howell, Lisa Robinson RATING: 3/10This film follows Claire and her son in the month after Claire's husband goes missing. Judging from the performance by lead actress Betsy Brandt though, you'd believe Claire never actually met the man as she has so little invested in his disappearance. With its deadly pace and quiet landscape, this film never quite picks up enough steam to level a feeling of honesty about the missing, and possibly dead, husband. Instead the co-writing, co-directing team get so distracted with a relatively uninteresting wife/mistress rivalry between Claire and her husband's colleague, that this turns into another story of an emotionally unavailable wife pitted against a younger woman who feels herself a bit too much. The husband's disappearance, it ultimately seems, is an absurd catalyst for a cliché set of circumstances. Deemed so unimportant by the writers in fact (SPOILER ALERT), the husband's disappearance is never even solved. With an underwhelming emotional landscape and a maddeningly unsatisfying ending, this film manages to bring very little to the table.

This movie made me angry!! I seriously am so mad I just spent 8 dollars on this. If you want closure( like the main actress) your not gonna get it. It's 11pm and I feel like I have to watch another movie to make up for this. I should have just watched YouTube videos with my 4 year old. Apparently you have to have ten lines to leave a review. Lets recap here. This movie wasn't what I expected and there was no closure. Do not watch it. It started off super slow and your just waiting for it to pick up. It NEVER picks up. The people in the movie are so odd. There is a scene where one woman is licking her hand like a cat while they are out to eat. It was extremely weird. The hippie chick in the movie is extremely weird too. Everyone is just super weird. I figured the dad was trying some weird hippie experiment out in the woods and trying not to be found or something. Everyone else in the movie was a nut job, so I assumed that's how it was going to end. Then it just ended with nothing.

(SPOILER) If you want the full story: Go watch the trailer - there is nothing else happening in the movie. Seriously! (endofSPOILER)There are some good cinematographic moments in which the helpless and deserted feelings of the small family left behind are starting to grasp. But they shortly turn just plain boring and come across as space- filler for bad and uninspired writing.The dialogues are poorly written and not good constructed as the actors fall apart during them. You can actually see the incomprehension in their eyes towards the "climax" (there isn't really one, but I will call it so).The color grading is awfully green and bleach without context and the overused lens flare effects don't even make sense most of the time, especially in the "end" scene.The worst part: The acting. It's not good acting if you have only three different face expressions throughout the entire movie, that goes for the lead role as well for every other character in the entire movie.Betsy Brandt either tried very little, or is just not ready for big- screen stuff. She fails to convince me in either of her roles: Neither the distant math-prof, nor the newly-awoken person she is supposed to be at the end. I'm sorry, but a lead role isn't for her. At least not this one. Her counterpart Anna Margaret Hollyman is your every-day-hippie-art- community-student you can't stand because she wants to be open and honest but withholds information and her intentions and is nothing else but selfish and annoying. With a total of two different face- expressions and body reactions the takes the cake of bad acting.I won't talk about cat-lady here, because it would be even more waste of time, than watching this movie is.Well, at least the kid was not annoying and does a pretty decent job, apart from the zero-emotion-policy this film apparently has.All in all: Don't watch this one.

ignore the good reviews there obviously by the producer or someone involved in the film. An what a bunch of pretentious bull they are.the story line sounds good but is not executed at all. its like a child's story where they have an idea but no clue how to action it especially the ending were a child would end it with it was all a dream! honestly ignore that voice in your head saying it sounds good an worth a try and save yourself.the endApparently I have too have ten lines of text to submit a review? why? am not re writing the script just giving a quick review!honestly first the film annoys me and now you I m d b. well now I review you.the rule of ten lines minimum means most wont bother giving a review as they don't have that much to say about it. if that's the reason you do it then what's the point of the site? 7/10 for you, you was 9.