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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Monterey
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Stormare, Martha Plimpton, Aaron Poole & Jill Hennessy | |
Directed by | Ed Gass-Donnelly | |
Edited by | Ed Gass-Donnelly | |
Screenwriting by | Ed Gass-Donnelly | |
Produced by | Ed Gass-Donnelly & Lee Kim | |
Director of Photography: | Brendan Steacy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Why are recent movies about small towns with murderous secrets so good?
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Kansas City Star
The film is regularly punctuated with quasi hymns by the Canadian indie rock band Bruce Peninsula....These sparse, harshly percussive, folk-gospel numbers shouted by a choir lash out like bursts of fire and brimstone...
New York Times
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] haunting, rural drama....Fans of character-driven drama and enigmatic stories alike will find plenty to love in this evocative tale...
Box Office
Rating: 1/4 --
Peter Stormare is a limited actor who only manages to exude the resolute nothingness of the role.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Beneath a deceptive calm, it uncovers a core of fear and loathing as ominous as the backwoods world of "Winter's Bone."
New York Times
The exteriors are spectacular in Ed Gass-Donnelly's spare meditation on redemption and violence....The drama is interior, and often hypnotic in its intensity...
Wall Street Journal
Rating: 2.5/4 --
STMS succeeds as an Ontario Gothic mood piece, a story of alternately repressed and exploding passion.
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Globe and Mail
Product Description:
A man at war with his soul and his nature is led into a situation that turns his few friends against him in this psychological drama from Canada. Walter (Peter Stormare) is a policeman who was born and raised in a small Mennonite community, where he still lives and serves. Walter has a violent streak that he struggles to keep in check, and when he badly beat a man in the line of duty, his girlfriend Rita (Jill Hennessy) left him and many of his friends and family turned their backs on him. Walter has immersed himself in his faith to keep his demons at bay, and he has begun dating Sam (Martha Plimpton), a deeply religious woman, while Rita has taken up with ne'er-do-well Steve (Stephen Eric McIntyre). When the body of a woman who was raped and murdered is found in a nearby lake, Walter has to investigate the crime, and discovers that Steve found the body and Rita reported it to the police. As evidence begins to point to a man some see as Walter's rival, many of the townspeople lose their trust in Walter, and he finds himself stretched to the breaking point as he is torn between his duty, his reputation, and the people he cares about. The second feature film from writer and director Ed Gass-Donnelly, SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS was an official selection at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.