Chris Pine wants to get out of the small town and get his country music career going. But his girl is still married to local cop Shawn Christian, his father Robert Pine needs his help, and so forth.
With the movie locked in the low-level depression of nothing to do and no place to go, the whole town seems to be like a surly teenager, with the main event being people getting drunk at the one bar in town without getting into a fist fight. As a portrait of that sort of hamlet (population 1382) it seems like a thousand dying towns scattered throughout the country, and the performances are all right. As a story it reminds me of Roman Hruska's assertion that the mediocre deserve to serve on the Supreme Court.
With the movie locked in the low-level depression of nothing to do and no place to go, the whole town seems to be like a surly teenager, with the main event being people getting drunk at the one bar in town without getting into a fist fight. As a portrait of that sort of hamlet (population 1382) it seems like a thousand dying towns scattered throughout the country, and the performances are all right. As a story it reminds me of Roman Hruska's assertion that the mediocre deserve to serve on the Supreme Court.