The question as to why a Sydney Sweeney movie isn’t enjoying wide theatrical release looms in the background as we watch Echo Valley (now streaming on Apple TV+). Is it because mid-budget Movies For Adults carry little weight anymore?

There’s something fittingly bleak about a thriller like “Echo Valley” unfolding on a quiet, isolated horse ranch, which is a place that should feel peaceful, but here, feels anything but. Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney lead this tightly coiled mother-daughter drama,

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Julianne Moore's Kate Garrett can barely keep the lights on at her Pennsylvania horse farm. An early scene in the Apple TV+ movie "Echo Valley" finds her soliciting funds to fix her roof from her ex-husband Richard (Kyle MacLachlan, tragically underutilized).