Desert Blue

Boredom is toxic in writer-director Morgan J. Freeman's follow-up to HURRICANE STREETS. Fatuous TV star Skye (Kate Hudson)is taking a road trip with her dad Lance (John Heard), a pop-culture scholar who insists they stop in Baxter, CA, to see the twon's "famous" giant ice cream cone. When the neighboring soda-pop factory accidentally releases potentially poisonous gases into the air, both visitors and native Baxter-ites — including sensitive Blue (Brendan Sexton III), explosives-obsessive Ely (Christina Ricci), all-terrain-vehicle racer Pete (Casey Affleck) and chubby Cale (Ethan Suplee) — find themselves quarantined by the FBI. Aren't those names a red f...