You’re never as alone as you think.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw, Radha Mitchell, Megan Charpentier, Gage Munroe, Amélie Eve, Avraham Aviv Alush |
| Director |
Stuart Hazeldine |
| Screenplay | John Fusco, Andrew Lanham, Destin Daniel Cretton, from the book by William P. Young, Wayne Jacobsen, Brad Cummings |
| Music | Aaron Zigman |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Editing | William Steinkamp |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2017 |
| Produced by | Netter Productions, Summit Entertainment |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Mild to moderate, infrequent |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | |
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| PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for thematic material including some violence |
| Runtime | 132 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Suggested age limit 12 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Alan Zilberman  Religious drama doesn't live up to its own ideals. | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Karla Janse van Vuuren Idee van God uitgedaag in 'The Shack'. | 15 |  |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy An understandably angry man taking on God and company should have been dramatically powerful, captivating and moving. But as presented here, it’s anything but that. And with no real answers provided for the tough questions at hand, the entire offering ends up being a cinematic non-starter. | 8 | |
| Metacritic.com 17 critics | 6 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 41 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Shack’s undeniably worthy message is ill-served by a script that confuses spiritual uplift with melodramatic clichés and heavy-handed sermonizing. | 4 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 8 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Sentimental faith-based adaptation explores grief, healing. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 22 users | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 12022 users | 15 | |
| Internet 3259 Netizens If you loved the book... | 13 |  |
Average .. 49% | 10 | |