Briar Patch (film)

Briar Patch (alternatively titled Plain Dirty) is a 2002 American romantic thriller drama film directed by Zev Berman, starring Dominique Swain, Henry Thomas, Arie Verveen, James Urbaniak and Karen Allen.

Cast

 * Dominique Swain as Inez Macbeth
 * Henry Thomas as Edgar Macbeth
 * Arie Verveen as Flowers
 * James Urbaniak as Druden Hunt
 * Karen Allen as Butcher Lee
 * Debra Monk as Officer Avon
 * Blake Lindsley as Raeburn

Reception
Contactmusic.com gave the film a rating of 2/5 wrote, "This boring melodrama has little going for it, proving once again that no one will ever give Swain the chance to appear in a movie that doesn't suck out loud."

Film Threat wrote that the film is "so bleak that it actually fails to satisfy, and sympathy is hard to come by for any of the characters, let alone Inez."

Scott Foundas of Variety called the film a "Southern Gothic melodrama so deep-fried you can just about feel your arteries hardening", and wrote that it "might have worked as a rollicking Tennessee Williams send-up, if only the filmmakers weren’t so unwaveringly straight-faced."