Caroline Libresco, a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, writes in her synopsis of "Between" that it is a "smart,
stylish and utterly original metaphysical thriller." Smart and stylish are in the eye of the beholder, I suppose, but "utterly original"? Has Ms. Libresco never actually seen a film at her festival? Because I can name three off the top of my head JUST FROM LAST YEAR that have almost the exact same plots and twists as "Between." This movie is a lot of things -- dull, amateurish, preposterous, for example -- but "utterly original" it most certainly is not. It is about a bland, husky-voiced gal named Nadine (Poppy Montgomery) whose sister Dianne has gone missing in Tijuana. Where you or I would give her up for lost rather than go to Tijuana and look for her, Nadine heads south immediately, against the advice of her loving but unsupportive husband James (Adam Kaufman). The cops in Mexico are no help. In fact, they seem to be hiding something. Eventually Nadine gets a detective named Campos (Jose Yenque) to help her, and he surmises almost instantly that she Nadine and Dianne aren't very close. This is not because Nadine has said something to hint at it, but because the movie wants us to know it and couldn't think of a better way to tell us.
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