‘Downtown Owl’ Review: Lily Rabe Is the Radiant Hot-Mess Center of an Affecting Small-Town Tragicomedy

The source material, the 2008 novel of the same name by essayist Chuck Klosterman, is not so much a riveting narrative as a vivid collection of personality types filtered through a hyperlocal 1980s vibe.

Hamish’s screenplay strains out most of the pop-culture commentary to focus on character, putting a Great Plains spin on familiar indie tropes — misfits, misbehavior, breakdowns and breakthroughs. The whiteout prairie blizzard that bookends the story casts a hand-of-fate shadow that slips into the background of the variously wacky and sad goings-on, its impact rising to the surface and fully felt in the movie’s shot-to-the-solar-plexus closing sequence.

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