The shadow of veteran documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman looms over Daniel Kraus' cinema verité look at Sheriff Ronald E. Hewett of rural Brunswick County, N.C. Kraus was working as a local TV-news photographer when he conceived this project, and knew firsthand that while Hewett's beat looks like a quiet backwater, it's actually seething with crime. Kraus opens the film with a sequence in which Hewett addresses local news crews that have converged on the scene of a multiple homicide. At first glance, Hewett embodies every stereotype of Southern lawmen: He puts his faith in the law, the Bible and firepower, dotes on his wife and children, hunts (waiting in a blin...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
76 mins