''Virginia Minnesota'' is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Stine and starring Aurora Perrineau and

Rachel Hendrix Rachel Hendrix is an American actress. She is known for playing Hannah in ''October Baby'' (2011). She also played Annabel in ''The Perfect Wave'' (2014). Hendrix also wrote and starred in the 2018 short film ''The Staying Kind''. Personal l ...

Cast

* Aurora Perrineau as Addison *

as Lyle *Jessica Miesel as Brooke *Julia Keefe as Nakoda *

Susan Walters Susan Walters, is an American actress and former model, best known for her roles as Lorna Forbes on the ABC daytime soap opera '' Loving'' from 1983 to late 1986 and as Diane Jenkins on the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' from 2001 ...

as Suzette *Eyas Younis as Gabriel * Aaron Hill as Hunter *Daniel Stine as Hillman *Carl Palmer as Bill *Bradley Hasemeyer as Police Officer *Emma Reaves as Marcie * Harold Perrineau as the voice of Mister

Release

The film premiered at the

Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is an annual independent film festival held each March in San Jose, California and Redwood City, California. The international festival combines the cinematic arts with Silicon Valley’s innovation. It is ...

on March 2, 2018.

Reception

The film has a 71% rating on

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based on seven reviews. Sheri Linden of ''

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'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The tonal shifts among mystery, folklore, melodrama and satire are neither smooth nor productively rough, and the narrative core remains unclear, lost amid the surfeit of disconnected moving parts." Malik Adán of ''

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'' also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "While this is surely the stuff of romcom boilerplate narratives, ''Virginia Minnesota'' prefers to wade into darker waters for the sake of more compelling, everyday drama."

References

External links

* * {{Rotten Tomatoes, virginia_minnesota 2010s English-language films