Northwest Film Forum

The backdrop of Jeff Nichols' first feature is small-town Arkansas, but the scale is grand tragedy. This tale of bloody ties and vengeance combines the breadth and texture of a Cormac McCarthy novel with the lyrical naturalism of a David Gordon Green film (who co-produced it and mentored Nichols). While SHOTGUN STORIES relishes its influences, it also carves a singular space for itself as a chronicle of rural and familial decay. As Eddie Cockrell noted in VARIETY, this is "a point-blank buckshot blast of inarticulate American rage." Winner of the New American Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.

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