'' Land Ho ! '' won the John Cassavetes Award for Best Feature under $ 500,000 at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards and has received mostly positive reviews from critics . Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 82 % of 90 film critics have given the film a positive review , with a rating average of 6.6 out of 10 . The site 's consensus reads " Gently amusing and agreeably modest in scale , '' Land Ho ! '' uses its stars ' warm chemistry to impart its poignant , quietly effective message . " On Metacritic , which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 reviews from film critics , it has an average score of 68 from 30 reviews
2015 Independent Spirit Awards
30th Independent Spirit Awards
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