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  • The Unforeseen
  • Opened February 29, 2008 | Runtime:1 hr. 33 min.
  • NR
  • In the 1980s, an ambitious real estate developer came to Austin, Texas with a dream – to transform miles of pristine wilderness into a sprawling self-sufficient city. When the development threatened a local treasure, a fragile limestone aquifer and Read More
  • Cast: Robert Redford, Gary Bradley, William Greider, Marshall Kuykendall, Dick Brown
  • Director: Laura Dunn
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Documentary

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  • 100
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    One of the most extraordinary accomplishments in recent American nonfiction...

  • 90
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Observing locally and thinking globally, Laura Dunn's astonishing debut doc...

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Add The Unforeseen to the catalog of artfully produced nonfiction films that...

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Walter Addiego

    What's unforeseen in Unforeseen, a superior documentary by Laura Dunn, are the...

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