New York-based filmmaker Courtney Hunt makes a strong feature debut with this strikingly authentic, socially conscious crime drama about a struggling mother who turns to a dangerous line of work when she's abandoned by her deadbeat husband.
Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo), a hard-working mother of two, wakes up one week before Christmas to discover that her husband, chronic gambler Troy, has decamped with both the car and the money they'd been saving for down payment on Ray's dream house: a three-bedroom doublewide. Ray tells her youngest son, 5-year-old Ricky (James Reilly), that daddy has left on a business trip, but 15-year-old TJ (Charlie McDermott) knows his da...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins