The Swearing Jar

A movie you didn’t expect... equally thoughtful and full of feeling.

Understanding that each journey has its own mountains to overcome, MacKay’s film finds strength in our ability to persevere even when forced to take an unexpected path.

The mystery is what initially engages audiences as they try to determine how these events are connected. But its dual role is investing viewers in the characters, so they want to know how it turns out for Carey.

The Swearing Jar will play with your emotions and your anticipations. But it will also earn every tug on your heartstrings, every reversal of expectation.

The Swearing Jar This brilliantly conceived story is a truthful and complex study of mourning, moving on, and the enduring quality of love&#59; it'll get you.


The Swearing Jar is has its ups-and-downs, both stylistically and emotionally, but emerges as a nicely calibrated, resonant look at grief, love and moving on.

The takeaway of "The Swearing Jar" is having a look at how, when they don't have some overarching, spiritual context, people try to reconcile death. How they cope, heal, and find happiness again.

The film's hovering sense of doom is lifted skillfully by a playful tone and a number of musical interludes. A slightly overlong running time and a few narrative dips let it down in places.

An intelligent, hopeful, and heartbreaking musical drama about moving on, exploring what can happen when you’re determined to write your own destiny in love and in life.

Adelaide Clemens gets her own version of the Take This Waltz dilemma and the story’s initial toying with the audience sneakily drifts us towards a mindset of grief that is rather effective.