Writer-director Biran Jun's debut feature is a slow but ultimately rewarding character-driven drama about a demographic rarely seen even in the outré world of independent film: Middle-American, working-class men.
Though still in his early 20s, PJ Lee (Thomas Guiry) is already on his own and almost out of options. His divorced mother, Marianne (Laurie Metcalf), has remarried a, East Alton, Illinois, police officer named Randall (James McDaniel) and started a new life for herself along with Randall's young son -- a life that doesn't really include PJ. PJ's father, Carl Lee (John Heard), left his family when PJ was still a boy, only to return when PJ was alrea...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
95 mins