Red Dirt

Though it owes its title to Eudora Welty quotation, this exercise in southern discomfort simmers the William trio — Inge, Faulkner, and Tennessee — in a Gothic gumbo that's something less than rib sticking. Griffith Joseph Burns (Dan Montgomery) was raised by his eccentric Aunt Summer (Karen Black) after his parents were killed in a car crash that actually may have been a murder-suicide, and feels the tug of faraway places, even though he's entangled in an ongoing affair with his first cousin, Emily Whaley (Aleksa Palladino). Never the sharpest tack in the box, fluttery Aunt Summer grows harder to handle with age and Griffith tires of the routine of tending...