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Young Ones

"In a future without water, vengeance will rain."

In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.

Top Cast

  • Michael Shannon

    Michael Shannon

    Ernest Holm

  • Nicholas Hoult

    Nicholas Hoult

    Flem Lever

  • Elle Fanning

    Elle Fanning

    Mary Holm

  • Kodi Smit-McPhee

    Kodi Smit-McPhee

    Jerome Holm

  • Aimee Mullins

    Aimee Mullins

    Katherine Holm

  • Christy Pankhurst

    Christy Pankhurst

    Robbie

  • Alex McGregor

    Alex McGregor

    Sooz

  • Robert Hobbs

    Robert Hobbs

    Caleb

  • David Butler

    David Butler

    Sam Lever

Overview

In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.

Rating

5.7 / 10
333 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 May 15, 2024

    No pun intended, but this is a really dry drama that assembles a decent enough cast but struggles with a really thin story. Climate change has played havoc with the water supply and so a sort of bartering arrangement has evolved between those who control the piped distribution and those who need to drink! Farmer "Ernest" (Michael Shannon) and his family are still trying to make a go of things amongst an environment of extortion and banditry - but he has one advantage. A machine that can do much of the manual work for them and one that proves useful when it comes to trading for water. Daughter "Mary" (Elle Fanning) has a boyfriend "Clem" (Nicholas Hoult) whom her father neither likes nor trusts, and when an accident occurs on a trip the two men take into the mountains, the young son "Jerome" (Kodi Smit-McPhee) gradually begins to smell a rat. With "Clem" now married to his sister, though, it is tough for "Jerome" to take his revenge. It's all perfectly adequate this in a sort of "Mad Max" light fashion, but there is little by way of characterisation and neither Hoult nor Smit-McPhee have very much to work with as the glaring sun and environmental challenges ram home much more of the message here the any of the writing does. It's adequately enough produced and edited but is really little better than afternoon television fodder that you'll quickly forget - even if you were in it.

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