In North Dakota, two estranged sisters are driven to extremes when their mother dies, leaving them with one week to pay back her mortgage.
Release Date: April 19th, 2019
R |1 hr 45 min
Plot SummaryIn North Dakota, two estranged sisters are driven to extremes when their mother dies, leaving them with one week to pay back her mortgage.
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby, James Badge Dale, Lance Reddick, Elizabeth Maxwell, Luci Christian, Morgana Shaw
Director: Nia DaCosta
Genres: Drama
Production Co: Buffalo Picture House, Extra A Productions
This startlingly accomplished debut feature by Nia DaCosta has the eyes and ears of a documentary — the opioid crisis is everywhere, the nearest hospital is far away — but the heart of a drama, and a stirring one. show more
Nia DaCosta’s heartland tale, rough around some edges, is a promising feature debut. show more
Less relentlessly bleak than Winter's Bone, which along with Frozen River is an obvious inspiration here, the life-on-the-margins drama makes a fine, tense vehicle for Tessa Thompson, who in the last few years has stood out in a variety of genres. show more
