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The police manage to track them down before they can leave, and Kailey is shot by police who believed her to be reaching for a firearm in her bag. It is left to the viewer to decide if she died or not. The movie ends with a flashback of Gulley walking to Quinette's pool bar for the first time to receive a postcard from his mother.
Totally destroyed the Governess as a character to modernize the issues Henry James explores in his novella. This movie was a pile of shit, like a made for Hulu cheap horror flick only worse. What exactly is the ending?
In the thriller TURN THE RIVER, Famke Janssen (Best Actress- Hamptons Film Festival) stars as Kailey a small town pool hustler in upstate New York. She ekes out a living playing poker, periodically driving into Manhattan to check up on her mentor, Quinn (Rip Torn), who runs Quinn's a hardcore pool hall.
Turn the River: Directed by Chris Eigeman. With Famke Janssen, Jaymie Dornan, Rip Torn, Matt Ross. A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
By the time the film ends, there's very little payoff for the suspense that has been built up over the previous 60+ minutes. The ending, in particular, lands with a soft "thud!" that may be authentic but feels like at least a modest copout.
"Quinn" sets up a high stakes match so Kailey can hustle enough money to sweep her son off to Canada and a brighter future. The finale is not as predictable as the rest of the movie. The title TURN THE RIVER makes little sense to me; maybe I just wasn't in the right mood to watch this.
31 mar 2023 · The story loses its way, and some of its credibility, toward the end, but that seems easy to forgive when so much of it has scraped so close to the bone. (Streaming on Tubi, Crackle, and other ...
