Release: No Promises in the Wind

 

No Promises in the Wind
Genre: Drama/Historical
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Rachel Hallett Hardcastle
Based on the novel by Irene Hunt
Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Ethan Thomas Jung, Maxwell Simkins, Carey Mulligan, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Dujardin, Peter Dinklage, Dafne Keen, Sonequa Martin-Green, Jeff Ward, Drake, Andrew Lincoln, Andrea Riseborough



Budget: $80,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $35,281,327
Foreign Box Office: $21,283,840
Total Profit: -$71,989,796

Reaction: This one hurts, becoming one of the biggest bombs in the studio's hustory. Why? Good question. It doesn't seem like Spielberg's name really holds the same cache at the box office that it once did. His films have struggled in recent years, both in and out of LRF. On top of that, this one had a lack of bankable stars and marketable subject matter (plus Spielberg movies are always expensive).

"I found this film boring. For a long movie I don’t feel like much happened. On top of this, the beats where I was supposed to feel something were just numb. The visuals are great but I just couldn’t help but think the story should have been changed slightly from the older book, after all it is an adaptation not a translation." - J. Johnson, DailyMovieNews.com

"No Promises in the Wind was visually interesting, especially once the carnival came into the story, but it simply did not work on the big screen as well as it worked as a juvenile novel. Josh makes for a very petulant and unlikable protagonist. In fact, just about everyone was unlikable and difficult to root for." - Samuel O'Brien, Sight and Sound Magazine

"Steven Spielberg has become a shell of his former self over the past decade or so. The wonder and excitement that once was associated with the Spielberg name has dissipated. Combined that lack of luster with a novel as source material that is too episodic and meandering to work in a film format, at least not without changes - changes that were not made with Rachel Hallett Hardcastle's adaptation." - Cooper Wilson, The Earl Hays Press

Rated PG for thematic material