Eye of God
1997 · Movie · R · 84 min · ★ 5.8 · 70% critics
After a badly injured boy is found by a lake in a small Oklahoma town, a sheriff tries to piece together what happened. His search leads into a bleak web of faith, loneliness, and violence, as the story unfolds out of order and slowly strips away the town’s sense of safety.
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Details
- Years
- 1997
- Release date
- 1997-10-17
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Critic score
- 70/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (20 votes)
About
You may like this if you’re drawn to dark, thoughtful crime dramas like Affliction or The Pledge, with a heavy emotional pull and rural unease; Not for you if you want a fast, clear-cut mystery.
Pros: haunting small-town atmosphere; strong performances; emotionally powerful | Cons: very bleak tone; nonlinear storytelling; deliberately slow pace
Themes
- small town
- suicide
- oklahoma
- murder
- domestic abuse
- domestic violence
- witness to murder
- ex-con
- small town sheriff
- abortion
- christian belief
- sad
- +1 more
Cast & crew
Martha Plimpton
as Ainsley DuPree
Kevin Anderson
as Jack Stillings
Nick Stahl
as Tom Spencer
Richard Jenkins
as Willard Sprague
Margo Martindale
as Dorothy
Maggie Moore
as Janice
Mary Kay Place
as Claire Spencer
Hal Holbrook
as Sheriff Rogers
Chris Freihofer
as Les Hector
Woody Watson
as Glen Briggs
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson