Old Joy

With the grudging consent of his pregnant wife (Tanya Smith), Mark (Daniel London) agrees to accompany his old friend Kurt (Palace Brothers guitarist/vocalist Will Oldham) on an overnight trip to the "otherworldly peacefulness" of a hot spring deep in the heart of Oregon's Cascade Mountains. With his scraggly beard and shiny bald pate, Kurt would probably describe himself as a "seeker" — he's only just returned from a stay in woodsy Ashland, Oregon, and he claims to be at a "whole new place now" — but others, perhaps even Mark, would simply call him a loser. Kurt has no job of which to speak, no money, and his life appears to have stalled 10 years earlier, when he wa...