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List Price: $19.95 | | Label: Ifc
Salesrank: 31481
Released: February 6, 2007 |
| Our Price: $2.90 |
| Used Price: $1.99 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
(Drama/Thriller) Sonny (Olyphant), an ex-con, returns home and creates a new dynamic for both friends and enemies. The local power broker, Fred Vance (Forsythe), wants Sonny back in his shady world but Sonny only wants money due. As he fights his long suppressed desire for his best friend's wife, passion and revenge threaten to overtake all as Sonny’s anger careens out of control, leading to an explosive confrontation, and finally to a surprising resolution.
Coastlines Reviews:
Where was this filmed? 
2009-08-22 - Actioned packed and twists and turns.But I bought 2 ,one for my daughter, one for me.We lived in this area, Franklin County,Florida.It is Apalachicola, East Point, with a splash of Carrabelle and Lanark.If you've been there on vacation,or have lived there, it will bring back fond memories.You'll see landmarks like the Gibson too.
By the way ,it is a good movie.
You could do worse, I suppose... 
2009-08-18 - I rented this film from Video on Demand for less then three bucks and watched it in a fit of boredom. Under these circumstances, I do not regret seeing it. However, had I spent money to actually purchase the DVD, I would not have been pleased. The film is a low budget creation which surprises with good acting. However, not even the quality of acting can rescue the film from the poorly constructed and written story.
After three years in jail for drug traficking, Sonny (Timothy Olyphant) comes back home on early release. His first order of the day is to collect $200K from the Vances, his former partners in crime. His shut mouth after his arrest had earned him the pay out. However, the Vances are slow with the cash, eventually making it clear they have no intention of paying up. While waiting for the money, Sonny re-establishes his relationship with his lifelong friends Dave and Ann (he is a local police officer), now a happily married couple with two daughters. It quickly becomes evident that Sonny's feelings for Ann run deeper then friendship. From this point on events slowly escalate. There is murder for hire, murder for revenge, betrayal.
You'd think that the above is a good set up for an interesting story. So it is. However, the writers mangle its potential by having characters make choices and decissions far removed from human logic, in order to accomodate a predictable scenario of events. Therefore, in the end, nothing makes sense to the viewer. All leading characters without fail seem self centered and narcisistic. Sonny does not seem to be at all concerned that by pursuing Dave's wife he is destroying his two friends and their children. Ann finds it easy to begin an affair with Sonny, despite having an otherwise happy marriage. Dave's care for Sonny's wellbeing is pathological and inexplicable, and continues even AFTER he finds out about his wife's affair... The Vances are meant to be manacing and powerful in their community, but come accros small time and grotesque. Then we are treated to a sugar sweet ending, that is also unjustified in human terms. Oy...I'm still not sure why this film was made...
Timothy Olyphant is cute...and that's the best I can say about this film... ;o)
Low budget indie melodrama 
2009-07-25 - Despite Josh Brolin's presence, this indie film smacks of low budget, though its tale of revenge, with a love triangle on the side, makes for pleasant viewing. Set in the Florida Panhandle, the film doesn't make very clear what the central character wants from the two evil marina guys, though he seems to want some money owed him before he went to prison for some drug activities. The action parts of the film are the weak link, but the character development of the love triangle participants is decently done. Recommended.
Truly endeering, thank god for Timothy Olyphant!
2009-03-18 - I really enjoyed this movie. I am a fan of Timothy Olyphant and that was the reason that I decided to rent this movie. I thought that the characters were well played and written as well as the overall script. I would have preferred to have seen more movie though. Like the other reviewers I thought the movie ended to soon, I could have continued watching...which is a good thing. Worth watching and certainly a movie that I would watch over and over again.
Friendship 
2008-10-06 - I picked this movie because of Timothy Olyphant. I like his performance in HBO series "Deadwood" but have not seen him on the big screen yet before I got this movie. His big dark eyes are mesmerizing and his quiet walk hints that there is a trouble to this character that is difficult to decode right away. Olyphant plays a convict released early from the prison who returns to his home town. He wants to collect money from a job that landed him to prison in a first place and reconnect with friends from his youth. His best friend is a sheriff, kind and caring, if not dull - who is married to a beautiful woman both men love. Can this love triangle survive the temptations? Where does loyalty and frendship fall into the play? Can someone start over his life after terrible personal loss? Good story, lots of action, great characters and moving emotional power.
