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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0858423001391
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Liberation Ent
Manufacturer: Liberation Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Liberation Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2008
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 12453
Studio: Liberation Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Product Description:
Shotgun Stories tracks a blood feud between two sets of half brothers in the cotton fielded back roads of Southeast Arkansas. This auspicious directorial debut by Jeff Nichols features a strong lead performance by Michael Shannon (Bug) and has been collecting a litany of awards and nominations since debuting at the Berlin Film Festival -including one for Best Picture at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards.System Requirements:Running Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/COMING OF AGE UPC: 858423001391 Manufacturer No: LIB00139
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - shotgun
this is a sleeper so go for it i hope you enjoy it as much as i did
Rating: - Vendetta Stories
This film got under my skin, like a shotgun pellet. It's a simple story, an old Biblical story, a story of Greek tragedy in the vein of Oedipus Rex. It isn't easy to analyze, because the motivations of the characters are too driven by their personal histories and their reticular activation systems. It is all too pat to say, as one critic did, that their meat-headedness makes them into archetypes, or that southern men would rather die than appear weak. These kinds of observations miss the mark by ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent drama, highly recommended.
This is a surprisingly good independent film.
As if hyper-transported into the rural southeast and placed smack dab into the porch of the Hayes brothers; Son, Kid, and Boy. Thusly named by an abusive alcoholic father who abandons them at an early age and finds Jesus. Juxtaposed, a hateful mother bred three hateful men. Each of which provide the audience with a unique and destitute existence in some ways cocoon by an oldest brother Son. There is a strange brew of co-dependence between them. ... Read More
Rating: - Resentment and Revenge in America's Heartland.
In "Shotgun Stories", writer/director Jeff Nichols places a story of resentment and revenge in rural Arkansas. Three close-knit brothers attend the funeral of their father, who had stopped drinking, become religious, and started a new family after years of abusing his first family. The eldest brother, simply named Son (Michael Shannon), lets loose his hatred for his father at the funeral, setting off a feud with the four sons of his father's second family. Middle brother Boy (Douglas Ligon) is trepidatious ... Read More
Rating: - New hope for American Independent film
Indie Wire has been all abuzz with recent comments by former Miramax president Mark Gill that the "Sky is falling" on the American Indie film scene. "Shotgun Stories" offers evidence to the contrary. It's a real film, with real human emotion, with believable characters, story and setting. Nothing rings false. That is so monumentally rare in global cinema that it makes me proud that the film is American. And this is no flag-waiver fare. As a matter of fact it is politically opinionless. The concerns of a small ... Read More
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