Dawson's Creek alum Joshua Jackson makes a belated but smooth transition to more adult roles in this beautifully rendered character study from director James C.E. Burke. Twin Cities native Duncan Shorter (Jackson) could have been a contender: By all accounts a great high-school hockey player who could have written his own all-expenses-paid ticket to the University of Minnesota, Duncan inexplicably gave up on the whole college thing and opted instead for a string of dead-end jobs. His latest career at a builder's-supply store having just come to an end, Duncan hits up his more successful friends (Zack Ward, Tyler Labine) for work, but no one's interested in hir...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins