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Excellent but underrated film

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Good, but not great.. Based on the reviews, I expected to like this film a bit more than I did. I love quirky independent films and I am a big fan of Morgan Freeman. So, it pains me to say that the writing (dialogue) was clunky. The characters were interesting and offbeat but some of the relationships that developed did not seem credible. Casey Affleck, Christina Ricci, and Brandan Sexton III were all very good. That said, I thought that the idea of portraying the struggle of people in a small town and the juxtaposition of the quirky (ice cream cone, beach in the desert) with the clear tedium and pain of life in an economically depressed and largely abandoned town was interesting.

I've recently seen this movie on TV and I remembered to comment it for IMDb. The movie has a good story and is very well conducted by this Morgan Freeman, the cast is also great: Christina Ricci and some brothers of great stars (Richmond Arquette is one of the Arquette Brother, Casey Affleck, younger brother of Ben Affleck) that also act great, although not as well as they expert brothers and sisters. Kate Hudson's character, Skye, is very interesting and she had a great start and she liked her teammates so much that she (she meet Casey Affleck and Christina Ricci again in "200 cigarettes"). The funniest scenes of the movies are the blasts, and the most touching is the water running in the end. This movie may be forgotten in a couple of years, but I know that everyone that as an almost impossible dream like the sea in the desert will remember this story after achieving that dream.

"Desert Blue" is both mildly entertaining and boring. Brendan Sexton III and Kate Hudson cute romance is the only reason I like this movie. Both actors have bright futures in Hollywood. The movie should have focused more on them instead of all these boring supporting characters. The first movie by this director "Hurricane Streets" is a much better movie.

It took awhile to get going, but I ended up loving "Desert Blue" quite a bit. It was nice to see Sexton play a character without the need for anger-management, and I also liked Kate Hudson also. It wasn't the greatest, funniest or most touching movie I ever saw, but it was certainly better than most. I liked practically every character on some level, and I can't say that about a lot of movies. It made me think of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" & "Bagdad Cafe" with a touch of "Firestarter".