After a teenage girl named Grace goes missing, her parents along with the help of an investigator seek to find her, while also juggling their own secrets and stories between them.
1936, London, England, UK
12 November 1973, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
19 August 1973, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
4 November 1972, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1963, Australia
9 June 1930, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
23 January 1962, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
February 04, 2016
The actors are all strong, with Mitchell and Roxburgh (a long way from TV's Rake) putting in fine performances, and a breakthrough turn from Young, whose elusive Grace holds this subtle saga together.
September 26, 2017
Brooks' screenplay is wryly funny about human behaviour, keenly observing the awkward ways anxious people rub up against each other.
September 25, 2017
The main disappointment of Looking for Grace is the finale, which replaces the Altmanesque ensemble style with something reminiscent of Kiéslowski's last works.
February 04, 2016
Brooks generally is so bewitched by her characters' opacity that they remain frustratingly remote, even in the rare moments when they open up, diminishing the sorrow of the final-act tragedy.
February 04, 2016
The characters depicted are flawed in all sorts of ways, but Brooks's evident sympathy for all of them shines through and the result is an offbeat road movie filled with surprises and revelations.
February 04, 2016
With its painterly eye for the parched saltpans and wheat fields bisected by snaking roads, the film has a lonely, elegiac beauty. The unexpected comedy can give way in an instant to something darker, but it's never mean-spirited.
January 29, 2016
Told in a fractured, non-linear style, with overlapping narratives retelling the story from different perspectives, the parts can be tantilising but the whole doesn't come together the way it should, the payoff being more of a whimper than a bang.
February 04, 2016
[Brooks] just wants you to feel for these people. And you do.
February 04, 2016
A tender and bittersweet drama about the vagaries of life and the consequences of our actions.
January 28, 2016
What sometimes shapes as promising about a bitsy tale of an outback search for a missing teen is never quite delivered upon here.
February 04, 2016
Even as its tone circles back to aching naturalism, there's something tenuous about the pic's tender resolution -- not to mention a teasing sense that more interesting untold stories might lie on the untold fringes.
February 04, 2016
It is really only when we're with Grace, and when the things that happen are happening to her, that we find any of the grace that Brooks is looking for.
