Perfect cast and a good story

An unexpected masterpiece

Blistering performances.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This film tells the story of a seed seller whose life is turned upside down due to a series of devastating events."At Any Price" tells a touching story about a man striving to achieve at work. He does not put as much effort into his family, and his family falls apart. It is touching to see the wife hoping to do something to reconcile the situation, but sad that she is quickly dismissed by the husband. Then, one thing after another, the family's problems spirals out of control. Denis Quaid is great as a troubled father, while Zac Efron is surprisingly good and is convincing as a rebellious son.The situation towards the end is very touching for a prolonged period. For many minutes I was touched to the verge of tears. The story is a big tragedy, and I was really feeling the family's pain and guilt. One can only hope there is sunshine after the rain. I hope there would be a sequel about redemption and atonement.

What makes this a bit better than your average movie, are the performers. Mainly Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron. Yes really. I know there are still people out there hating on Zac and if you are one of them, I wouldn't suggest watching any of his movies (I haven't seen the High School Musical ones and stuff like that, so I cannot say what went on with those), because you wouldn't enjoy any of them anyway.It's not easy holding your own if you have to act along with Quaid, but Efron does a great job. The story about a father and a son who don't seem to have anything in common or anything to say to each other. It seems to be a lost cause and things that happen in the movie do not help making their relationship better ... but make a better movie, with them portraying it the way they do

I really liked the first 50 or so minutes of this movie. It was an interesting character study with great commentary on the American dream.But this movie goes sour when Dean loses the race. He had talent and promise yet he threw it all away because of one loss. Out of nowhere, he cares about the farm even though just a day before he hated it and couldn't wait to be a race car driver. Also he's suddenly mad at his girlfriend. Why? No idea, it wasn't her fault he lost. From that point on it felt like a different movie and Dean felt like an entirely different character. The ending was awful too. I kept thinking it was building to something, maybe Dean confessing to the murder. But nope, he gets away with it. A great first half and amazing performances by Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron keep me from completely hating it, but overall I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

AT ANY PRICE (dir. Ramin Bahrani) If the film had just developed a single tangent, such as the troubled relationship between a father and son without all the other thematic distractions, it might have worked. Dennis Quaid turns in an exceptional performance as a GMO mega-farmer whose family has owned the land for four generations, yet no one in his family seems the slightest bit interested in continuing in the business of farming. However, because so many story angles are opened up and explored, the film loses focus. There's the story of the two sons- one is off climbing mountains in South America while the other aspires to excel on the NASCAR circuit, and then there is the sub-plot of the father's questionable dealings with genetically modified crop seeds, his sexual infidelity with one of his old high school cheerleader pals (by the way, they don't appear to have attended high school within two decades of each other), and the 'professional' relationship with his youngest son's teen-aged girlfriend (possibly the brightest point of the film). And finally there's that unfortunate second degree homicide that pops up out of the blue. It seems that the intent was to produce a film where the whole was greater than the sum of its parts, but AT ANY PRICE flounders and struggles with a handful of disparate elements that don't add up to much of anything except a credible performance by Dennis Quaid. As Archie Bell and The Drells used to say, 'Do The Tighten Up!'