This New York Times Critics' Pick about a tiny town in the swamps of Texas populated mostly by ex-convicts is "like a documentary version of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild,' complete with the looming threat of a surreal environmental catastrophe...The line between animal and human, nature and civilization, seems especially porous in Uncertain." - Variety
"Vital insights into the life of the rural American man, namely that he has not one face, but many, and contains multitudes. Uncertain is a film content to be small, one that knows that every atom is a universe." - Village Voice
"As the filmmakers draw surprising information from their subjects, your own emotions may shift when the person you thought you knew is shown in a new light. Those are perplexing moments. They are also the mark of a very fine film." - New York Times
"Contains all the elements of a Southern gothic: the mysterious lake, the secrets deep in the souls of the inhabitants like the secrets at the bottom of the lake, the sheriff, the crime, the confessions, the city slicker trying to solve it all." - The Stranger
A visually stunning and disarmingly funny portrait of the literal and figurative troubled waters of Uncertain, Texas. In a 94-resident town so tucked away “you’ve got to be lost to find it", three Uncertain men make their own bids for survival looking to find a more certain future. An ex-convict obsessed with Mr. Ed, a gigantic boar he hunts in order to stay on the straight and narrow. A young idealist with big plans but few prospects is looking for a bigger life. An aging fisherman learning to let go of his youthful ways, and making peace with a fateful moment thirty years ago. All the while Uncertain’s vast, swampy lake is being choked by an aquatic weed, upsetting the natural balance and the town’s only source of livelihood. Not Rated. 82 mins.
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