Limbo

Limbo is about the itinerant nightclub singer Donna and her rebellious teenage daughter Noelle, who is tired of her mother's many failed relationships and the rootless life. In a small town in Alaska, however, it looks as though Donna has for once found herself a decent man, namely Joe Gastineau, a handyman and former fisherman. Although Joe is an exceedingly likeable guy, he too has a chequered past.

Joe invites Donna and Noelle on a boat trip. The boat's owner, Bobby, is Joe's half-brother, and he is a bad lot. Just how bad only dawns on Joe when Bobby confesses that he deals drugs. Bobby's career is short-lived, however, as he is shot by his business associates. The other three flee the boat into the vast wilderness, but can they get home again by themselves, and what are their chances of being found?

What the film thrives on is its nuanced characterisation and feel for the setting, but its ending is disappointingly open.