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Shotgun Stories

2008, Movie, NR, 92 mins

SHOTGUN STORIES
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Little Rock native Jeff Nichols' melancholy tale of retribution and regret unfolds against the lush, pitiless landscape of rural southwest Arkansas. Son, Boy and Kid Hayes (Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon and Barlow Jacobs) grew up hating Cleamon, the brutal, alcoholic father who abused and eventually abandoned them, a man so indifferent to his sons that he couldn't be bothered to give them real names. Their embittered, equally uncaring mother, Nicole (Natalie Canerday), s... read more leave a comment
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Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
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Son Hayes never speaks of the scars on his back. The shotgun pellets left under his skin make for a sporadic pattern of blue-black dots. The men he works with take bets on how he got them. His brothers, Boy and Kid Hayes, don t discuss it. His past, just like these scars, is never far behind him. This stands true for the memory of his father, a man that never bothered to give his children proper names. He left the three brothers, Son (MICHAEL SHANNON), Boy (DOUGLAS LIGON) and Kid (BARLOW JACOBS), when they were young. Their last impressions were of a violent drunk who never hesitated to put his own needs ahead of his family. The brothers were left to be raised by their mother, a hateful woman, who to this day blames her children for the life she s been left with and the man she could not keep. Their father, having left the memory of his children as completely as he left their home, managed to move on and put his life back together. He sobered up, became a devout Christian, married a wo
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Posted: 4/3/2008
Son Hayes never speaks of the scars on his back. The shotgun pellets left under his skin make for a sporadic pattern of blue-black dots. The men he works with take bets on how he got them. His brothers, Boy and Kid Hayes, don t discuss it. His past, just like these scars, is never far behind him. This stands true for the memory of his father, a man that never bothered to give his children proper names. He left the three brothers, Son (MICHAEL SHANNON), Boy (DOUGLAS LIGON) and Kid (BARLOW JACOBS), when they were young. Their last impressions were of a violent drunk who never hesitated to put his own needs ahead of his family. The brothers were left to be raised by their mother, a hateful woman, who to this day blames her children for the life she s been left with and the man she could not keep. Their father, having left the memory of his children as completely as he left their home, managed to move on and put his life back together. He sobered up, became a dev
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Length: 01:47
Posted: 3/17/2008
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Posted: 12/19/2009
Year: 2008
Rated NR

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Cast
Michael Shannon: Son Hayes
Douglas Ligon: Boy Hayes
Barlow Jacobs: Kid Hayes
Michael Abbott Jr.: Cleaman Hayes
Travis Smith: Mark Hayes
Lynnsee Provence: Stephen Hayes

 

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