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Echo Valley Arrives on Apple TV+ With Tension and Unanswered Questions

Set on an isolated Pennsylvania farm, the Michael Pearce thriller finds Julianne Moore confronting the dark fallout of her daughter’s crime.

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Domhnall Gleeson as drug dealer Jackie Lawson in Apple's "Echo Valley"
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Overview

  • Echo Valley premiered June 13 on Apple TV+ after a limited theatrical run earlier in the month.
  • Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney portray a mother and troubled daughter entangled in a crime-driven family drama.
  • BAFTA winner Michael Pearce directs from a screenplay by Emmy nominee Brad Ingelsby, with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions aboard.
  • Critics are divided over the film’s pacing and plotting, though most praise the lead performances and atmospheric tension.
  • The movie’s ambiguous final moments leave Claire’s fate—and the true cost of maternal sacrifice—open to interpretation.