“Writer/director Brian Savelson’s new film In Our Nature is an insightful drama that probes the delicate dynamics that shape our familial and romantic relationships.”

—Katie Fischer, Interview Magazine

“From the very first scene, which is bound to elicit laughs, I was a fan.”
—Nell Alk, BlackBook Magazine

“Grade: A!  Revelatory … With humor injected into the gravitas.”
—Serena Donadoni, Indiewire

“Beautifully observed…  Writer/director Brian Savelson’s film features the sort of astute, well-observed characterizations that lift it above the indie pack.”

—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter

“Slattery and Gilford create the type of genuine awkwardness that can exist only between fathers and sons.”

—Solvej Schou, Entertainment Weekly

Gabrielle Union shoots and scores with In Our Nature: “This movie was my win.”

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“Shot mostly in and around the remote cabin, In Our Nature relies on emotionally packed dialogue to convey the conflicted feelings of the men. Many industry colleagues, Savelson said, citing his background in theatre, were puzzled that he hadn’t mounted this four-actor story on a Manhattan stage instead. Savelson had his reasons. ‘[I] tried to explain that it was all about finding those intricacies, those nuances, that get lost on stage,’ he says. ‘This was about getting to what you can only see in close-up on the big screen and that’s what interested me in taking it out of the theater.’”

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In Our Nature – Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) and John Slattery (Mad Men) star as an estranged son and father who serendipitously end up at a vacation house with their girlfriends (Jena Malone and Gabrielle Union).

—Inside Movies