Welcome to Pine Hill

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  • Opened March 1, 2013 (Limited NY)
  • 1 hr 21 min
  • NR

  • Shannon, a reformed drug dealer, works as a claim adjuster during the day and as a bouncer at night. After he receives devastating news, he makes peace with his past and searches for a life beyond the bounds of New York City. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Shannon Harper, Jaiden Kaine, Mary Meyers
  • Director: Keith Miller
  • Genres: Drama

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The A.V. Club
| Noel Murray

Welcome To Pine Hill is a short, docu-realistic film, with very little plot and scenes that play like loose improvisations. Miller is mainly interested in the various spaces Harper inhabits, and how he inhabits them. Read full review

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Time Out New York
| Eric Hynes

Miller’s ace in the hole is the hulking, regal Harper, whose round face vacillates between childlike mirth and lung-stomping sadness. His casual charisma not only commands our attention and affection, it sidelines every social or thematic concern to this singular, tentatively aspiring life. Read full review

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The New York Times
| A.O. Scott

[Mr. Miller's] film shows the influence of other recent work in the American neo-neo-realist vein, notably Ramin Bahrani’s “Goodbye, Solo” and Lance Hammer’s “Ballast,” and like them relies on understatement and indirection to arrive at a powerful and resonant meaning. Read full review

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Village Voice
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At times the improvised dialogue seems too schematic and superfluous, especially in view of such exploratory and observant handheld camera work. Otherwise, though, this is wonderful stuff. Read full review

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Shannon Harper as Shannon in "Welcome to Pine Hill."