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Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  Crazy Bit of FrothPosted: 5/9/2005A review of Off the Map by WallyC123 Let me be sure I understood the story line.
The IRS, desperately needing help, hires an unqualified lawyer with serious emotional problems. His first assignment, go out into the desert and find a family that hasn’t filed a tax return in seven years.
Driving for several days in the searing heat, he arrives, still nattily dressed, only to discover a nude woman standing out in the garden in the blazing summer sun in New Mexico, staring off into space.
The IRS Agent still in shock at finding the naked woman in the garden and stung by a bee, falls ill for several days. Mother now dressed treats the agent’s swelling arm by ducking it into a bucket of cold water. Ice cold water seems to flow freely in the desert.
Mother whips up a good hot dinner of soup, which the now recovered IRS Agent tries to eat with a folk. Mother, ever the capable one, sits down after supper and on an adding machine figures out that the couple does indeed owe $1,200 in back taxes plus interest and penalties.
Master Card issues a credit card to the unbelievably precocious eleven-year old daughter, so that she can purchase a world-class sailboat and have it hauled from San Diego to New Mexico. This is a birthday present to Dad, who like the IRS Agent is suffering from depression. (If they were depressed making this film, what must they have felt like after.)
Voila, all is solved. The IRS Agent discovers a latent painting talent, stays eight years, and sells forty one-foot painting for huge sum of money. Pays off IRS and master card and drops dead out in the desert, probably from the shock of the sale.
On the plus side. I saw this movie on a wet drizzly Sunday night with nine other stunned patrons. Marginally better than sitting outside in the rain. Landscapes and cinematography were spectacular. Was this review helpful? Sign In 1 out of 1 users found this helpful  EnchantingPosted: 3/26/2005A review of Off the Map by Ashlay6 Saw this on a whim. It is delightful. Set in the land of Enchantment, it is a desperate and funny film about a hippiesque family struggling with their precocious daughter, a depressed husband, and an pending audit. Bo has big unrealistic plans to get out of the desert and the family situation is "stuck", but when uptight IRS agent shows up for an audit, events transpire to make him stay and all are transformed. Beautiful scenery shots. Uplifting. I am so glad they are showing this and I had a chance to see it! Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  One of a kind moviePosted: 1/4/2004A review of Off the Map by Anonymous After veiwing this movie at the Austin Film Fest.<br>I left with the feeling that I've just seen an "One of A Kind Movie" <br>I came to see the voice himself, Sam Elliot only to wait for more than 20 mins. for him to say a word. Everything about this movie threw me for a loop. The story was told from everyone's point of view. Even wile dealing with the worst of human emoctions I found myself laughing out loud more that once.<br><br>Bottom line is don't let youself miss this one Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful Where can we buy this movie?Posted: 5/7/2003A review of Off the Map by Anonymous I too attended the Sundance Film Festival this year, and this was my favorite film and also the favorite of my friends who attended the festival. Please, please someone get this movie distributed to theaters. We would love to see it again, would love to own it so we could watch it over and over. What a work of art. What a thing of beauty. What a lovely story. Congratulations to Joan Ackermann, to Campbell Scott, and to the entire cast and crew. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful A Beautiful FilmPosted: 4/21/2003A review of Off the Map by Anonymous I am fortunate enough to live in Park City, Utah; and that means that I am able to see some amazing films during Sundance. Off the Map, was my favorite of the film festival this year.The acting is flawless. The characters are genuine, the dialogue is rewarding, and the cinematography is stunning. I cannot wait until this film is in theaters. We were told that the version shown for Sundance was essentially a photocopy of the film, and that when released to theaters, the images we saw would be even sharper and more colorful.Is it possible to fall in love with a film? I think I did, and I bet you will to when you see it. Keep an eye out for the young actress that plays Bo in this film. I have a feeling that we are all going to be rewarded with her presence in many fine films yet to be made.A little about the film: As it opens, we meet Bo, a very intelligent and mature 11 year old who lives in a very old looking house in the middle of somewhere in Northern New Mexico. Her parents live deliberately by their resourcefulness and ingenuity. Bo, spends her days writing letters to companies that make junk food; informing them that their products contained foreign objects, so that she can get more samples sent to her in exchange for her undeerstanding in the matter. (Kids, don't try this at home!)An IRS agent is sent to the home to investigate the reason why the family has not filed a return in over five years. That's easy. They don't make enough to be required to file a return. But there is a penalty for doing this we discover.The agent falls in love with the land, and with the way that these people live. He decides to stay, and is transformed in the process. He learns to accept these people for who they are, and attains a level of humanity seldom realized by many. Go see this film! And then go see it again. Was this review helpful? Sign In 1-5 of 5 Per Page | ||
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