Searching for Paradise

Relative newcomer Pratt delivers a confident performance in this film bolstered by an array of good work.

What Paci delivers is no less than soul-baring independent filmmaking, most deserving of the warm reception it's bound to get from the hometown crowd.

Personally conceived and resistant to simplified formulas, Myra Paci's debut feature, Searching for Paradise could have been vastly better than it actually is.

Noth has great fun playing the self-involved, pretentious star, and Pratt is touching as a young woman confused and consumed by grief.