Limbo

Writer/director John Sayles once again takes his audience to a place they may never have been before (this time both psychologically and geographically). Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn) lives in Juneau, Alaska, where his life has been stuck in neutral for about 25 years. When he was young, Joe was ...more

For his first film for a major studio in years, John Sayles chose a project uncompromising even by his own restrictive standards, although this might not appear to be the case at first. In its first half, Limbo, like Sayles' Lone Star and City of Hope, establishes with almost novelistic detail the details of a community, in this instance a small fishing town in Alaska. It's all the more shocking, then, when the film abandons its carefully established milieu for life on a desert island, but ...more