Shotgun Stories

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Call Number: DVD Drama Shotgun
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Videodisc release of the 2007 motion picture.
Special features: Audio commentary with director Jeff Nichols; isolated score composed and performed by the band Lucero; production stills; trailers; photo gallery.
Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs.
This film tracks a blood feud between two sets of half brothers in the cotton-fielded back roads of Southeast Arkansas. The first set of Hayes boys were deserted by a violent, alcoholic father who never gave them proper names. The second Hayes family knew a different, sober man who led a comfortable middle-class life. When those first sons crash his funeral, the anger that had rested in the background of their lives threatens to rise up and overtake them all. The escalating violence that ensues stretches the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., NTSC.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

See if before it's got 300 holds submitted by irenzero on June 18, 2011, 9:34pm Jeff Nichols has a film coming out this fall called Take Shelter, it looks like it is going to be amazing, and then everyone is going to want to see what he has done.... Shotgun Stories is that previous film. the description above is pretty good, what it doesn't say is that you will never forget this look at the conflict between a set of half brothers. It's a moody film that takes it's time and you can almost feel the southern heat seep out of the frames. Michael Shannon carries the film and that alone makes it worth watching... trust me, get this before it's on everyone must see list.

Oh, no. A blood feud! submitted by tbbrown76 on July 19, 2014, 10:33pm I don't like shotguns. They have too much recoil.

Trigger event submitted by tarascon on July 9, 2023, 11:36pm A modern Greek tragedy.
And, as usual, Shannon is great.