Under the Silver Lake (2018)
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Under the Silver Lake rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.5/10· 59K votes
Rotten Tomatoes58%
Metacritic60%
TMDb6.354/10· 2K votesWith 58% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.5/10 on IMDb and 60/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About Under the Silver Lake
Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.
Cast of Under the Silver Lake
Andrew Garfield
as Sam
Riley Keough
as Sarah
Topher Grace
as Bar Buddy
Callie Hernandez
as Millicent Sevence
Don McManus
as Final Man
Jeremy Bobb
as Songwriter
Riki Lindhome
as Actress
Patrick Fischler
as Comic Fan
Zosia Mamet
as Troy
Jimmi Simpson
as Allen
Grace Van Patten
as Balloon Girl
Bobbi Salvör Menuez
as Shooting Star #1
Under the Silver Lake facts
- Budget
- $8.5M
- Box office
- $2.1M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •David Robert Mitchell crafts dark-comedy neo-noir mystery
- •Dream-sequence cinematography creates surreal visual atmosphere
- •Hollywood-Hills setting satirizes entertainment-industry excess
What the audience disliked
- •Mysterious narrative structure alienates mainstream audiences
- •Part-animation integration feels experimental and disjointed
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