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If youve seen enough modern woman-in-peril thrillers, you know to brace yourself for the worst-case scenario.
ButRust Creeklets you exhale just a bit.
Its tight without being punishing, and its humor takes you happily by surprise.
The humanism feels positively radical.
From the start, its clear McGowan will be putting her heroine through hell while protecting her from degradation.
Paulson is best known for his brief run as the distraught younger brother of Dick Whitman (a.k.a.
Don Draper) onMad Men,and he and Corfield have a wonderful, barbed chemistry.
(The bright script is by Julie Lipson.)
Theres a lot of standard genre material inRust Creekbut with much of the rust scraped off.
