Longtime independent writer-director Victor Nunez brings a rare combination of homegrown regional sensibility and genuine filmmaking skills to his low-key stories of small-town life on Florida's gulf coast. That this deceptively quiet crime thriller about an ex con's troubled homecoming sat on the shelf for four years before finding commercial distribution speaks volumes about both the voracious appetite for sand/surf/summer-break cliches and Hollywood's willingness to pander to it. There's no fanfare when ne'er-do-well, small-time drug runner Sonny Mann (Timothy Olyphant) slinks back into his hometown in Franklin County, on the Gulf of Mexico; even his dad (Scott Wi...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins