Magic Valley (film)

Magic Valley is a 2011 American drama film directed by Jaffe Zinn, starring Scott Glenn, Kyle Gallner, Alison Elliott, Brad William Henke, Matthew Gray Gubler and Will Estes.

Cast

 * Scott Glenn as Ed Halfner
 * Kyle Gallner as TJ Waggs
 * Alison Elliott as Martha Garabrant
 * Brad William Henke as Jerry Garabrant
 * Matthew Gray Gubler as Mok
 * Will Estes as Jimmy Duvante
 * Daniel Frandson as Chad
 * Landon Abercrombie as Jason
 * Johnny Lewis as John

Release
The film premiered at the Rome Film Festival on 31 October 2011. The film was released to VOD on 9 April 2013.

Reception
Ronnie Scheib of Variety wrote that the film "puts its unique stamp on a ubiquitous dead-child theme".

Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter praised the performances of Glenn and Henke while writing that the film is "not quite the sum of its parts" and "never builds into either a nail-biting investigation nor into a truly captivating mediation on life and death in America’s heartland" despite "many well-executed sequences".