Wetlands is a 2017 American crime thriller film written and directed by Emanuele Della Valle and starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Heather Graham, Christopher McDonald, Reyna De Courcy and Jennifer Ehle. Michael Shamberg served as an executive producer of the film.
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Premise
A disgraced Philadelphia police detective attempts to make a new start in Atlantic City with the help of his daughter and new partner.
Cast
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Detective Babel "Babs" Johnson
Heather Graham as Savannah
Jennifer Ehle as Kate Sheehan
Christopher McDonald as Detective Paddy "Red" Sheehan
Reyna de Courcy as "Surfer Girl"
Celeste O'Connor as Amy Johnson
Murphy Guyer as Captain Schmidt
Rob Morgan as Sergeant Walker
Jake Weber as Sergeant McCulvey
Barry Markowitz as "Lollipop"
Louis Mustillo as Jimmy "Coconuts"
Tyler Elliot Burke as Alfie
Sean Ringgold as "Big G"
Anthony Mackie
Lauren LaVera as "Buttercup" / Pusher
Pamela Dunlap as Mrs. Harrington
Lynne Wintersteller as The Landlady
Lou Morey as Kenny
Peter Jacovini as Lollipop's Thug
William Jacovini as Lollipop's Thug
Vincent Riviezzo as Mobster
Dona Gregorio as Lollipop's Girl
Dana Kreitz as Stripper
Justine Denea Cassady as Go-Go Dancer
Natalie Paige Bentley as Party Girl
Lillian Cartagena as Call Girl
Darien Davis as Call Girl
TJ Martin as Drunk Old Man
Release
The film was released in theaters on September 15, 2017.
Reception
The film has a 40% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two stars. Alan Ng of Film Threat gave the film a 2 out of 5.
Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Apparently moviemaking keeps getting easier while writing keeps getting harder — Wetlands being yet another example of a film whose surface technical polish can only do so much to gloss over the coarse, clumsy screenplay that flummoxes its cast."
Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Stronger on style than substance."