Ill Fated

Mark A Lewiss tragiccomic adventure ILL FATED plunges the viewer into the boxedin world of Jimmy a smalltown teen who seeks a better life but who sees deadend signs at every turn out of town His vague plan to leave and look into college is complicated by a revolving door of smalltown complications the demands of his lumpen best friends his troubled girlfriend his promiscuous stepmother and cuckolded stepfather But the biggest complication of all is the return of his womanizing biological dad Earl whod fled in Jimmys infancy after impregnating the wife of a violent convict also his best friend Earls return is a catalyst to disaster and a palette for director Lewis to paint a hyperrealist picture of smalltown dystopia