Out of the Furnace

Sometimes your battles choose you.

Set during the time of the financial crisis back in 2008, in a so-called Rust Belt (depressed) area of the US, this is the tale of two brothers and how they cope. The younger one has already served three terms in Iraq and is suffering from PTSD, while the other finds himself in jail after an vehicle accident. When he gets out, his girlfriend is gone and the younger brother, who had been taking part in illegal fist fights, goes missing. The search is going to go into some very tough territory...

116 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence, Drug abuse).
Crime, Drama, Thriller.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

You'd make a fine Batwoman ...

Credits

Cast	Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
Director	Scott Cooper
Screenplay	Brad Ingelsby, Scott Cooper
Music	Dickon Hinchliffe
Cinematography	Masanobu Takayanagi
Editing	David Rosenbloom
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2013
Produced by	Appian Way, Energy Entertainment, Red Granite Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama
Language	Strong and frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong and frequent
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None (sic)
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 17 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Ann Hornaday Riveting chronicle of revenge	10
Die Burger Rozanne Els Sukkelendes se stryd	10
Cape Times Todd McCarthy Dark road leads to the fire	15
ScreenIt C. Fuchs The film ends up coming off like a combo platter of things we've already seen, without putting enough of a fresh or interesting spin on the various elements, let alone the entire piece. That doesn't make any of those subplots or the overall effort bad by any means, but it does end up causing the offering to feel a bit longer than the nearly two hour run time.	11
Metacritic.com 40 critics	13
Rottentomatoes critics 171 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer While it may not make the most of its incredible cast, Out of the Furnace is still so packed with talent that it's hard to turn away.	10
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	12
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation	10
What the People say
Internet 32369 Netizens Hard punching and straight forward film delivers	14
Average .. 59%	12