Ballast
About this movie
- Synopsis
- In the cold, winter light of a rural Mississippi Delta township, a man's suicide radically transforms three characters' lives and throws off-balance what has long been a static arrangement among them....
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- Director(s)
- Lance Hammer
- Distributor(s)
- IFC
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 96 min.
Critic Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Ballast inexorably grows and deepens and gathers power and absorbs us. I always say I hardly ever cry at sad films, but I sometimes do, just a little, at films about good people.Read the full review
Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites
This is the most significant feature about poor black life since Charles Burnett's 1977 "Killer of Sheep."Read the full review
Variety | Robert KoehlerAdd Critic to Favorites
A rock-ribbed sense of committed, personal cinema and a core belief in people being able to pull themselves out of misery supports Ballast, an extraordinary debut by editor-writer-director Lance Hammer.Read the full review
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