Ulee's Gold

An unusually stoic Peter Fonda stars as Ulysses Jackson, a widowed Florida beekeeper who farms precious Tupelo gold honey while trying to raise the two daughters (Vanessa Zima and Jessica Biel) of his imprisoned son Jimmy (Tom Wood). His quiet life is suddenly disrupted when Jimmy begs him to rescue his heroin-addicted wife (Christine Dunford) from the clutches of a sinister pair of thugs. Since 1979, longtime independent filmmaker Victor Nunez has made only four feature films, each better than the last and all of them fine. That's one reason why his latest work comes as something of a disappointment. High expectations aside, the power of an otherwise carefully cra...