Refuge (film)

Refuge is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Jessica Goldberg, based on her play. It stars Krysten Ritter, Brian Geraghty, Logan Huffman, and Madeleine Martin.

After her parents disappear, Amy drops out of college to care for her two younger siblings. Sam, a man with whom Amy has had a one-night stand, requests to rent space at Amy's house, and a romance develops between the two.

Filming took place in Southampton, New York, in February 2011 and took about a month.

Refuge premiered at the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival.

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 25% of eight surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 5.2/10.Metacritic rated it 34/100 based on six reviews. John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "sincere but unconvincing drama" that suffers in the adaptation to film.Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called it "a fragmentary, unconvincing effort to trace the emergence of a familial bond". Sheri Linden of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Explained rather than inhabited, the characters are half-formed, and their low-grade depression infects the underpowered storytelling."