Scrapple

A genial shaggy-pig story set in a late-1970s ski town. It's summertime in Ajax, Colo. (a thinly disguised Telluride), and amiable house painter/small-time pot dealer Al Dean (co-writer/producer Geoffrey Hanson) has a dream: to scrape together $7,500 for a down payment on a house, so his brother (Dan Earnshaw), a Vietnam vet, can have a porch on which to roll his wheelchair and enjoy the snow-topped scenery. But Al Dean (as everyone calls him), who's generally attired in a puffy ski vest and wide, Grand Funk Railroad hair, also has the modest ambitions and surrogate-family familiarity of most everyone else in this remote, ramshackle town of quasi-hippies. He'd rather...