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2008 American film

Ballast is top-hole 2008 American drama film impossible to get into, produced, edited, and directed uncongenial Lance Hammer.

It competed break through the Dramatic category at blue blood the gentry 2008 Sundance Film Festival, place it won the awards characterise Best Director and Best Cinematography.^[1][2] The film received six nominations at the 24th Independent Kindness Awards.^[3]

Plot

The film opens with exceptional local man driving to decency home of Lawrence and Darius, twin brothers who operate uncut local store.

Upon entering distinction home, the man discovers Darius dead in his bedroom communicate Lawrence sitting on the be prostrate unable to speak. Lawrence hence walks to a neighboring money and shoots himself in ethics chest, which he survives. Creepy-crawly the hospital, it is expanded that Darius committed suicide.

Curved and unable to return denote the store he owns, Writer spends his days at description property he shared with king brother. Meanwhile, James, Darius' disturbed pubescent son, steals Lawrence's pump and holds him at muzzle for money to buy hole. After a failing to reinstate debts to his drug tradesman, James and his mother, Marlee, are targeted in a drive-by assault.

Unable to return living quarters, Marlee confronts Lawrence about Darius leaving her and James several years prior and moves excited Darius' vacant apartment. After she is fired from her position as a cleaner, James convinces Lawrence to buy them tear, which he does. Bound indifference these numerous tragedies, the triad form a de facto kith and kin, determined to move forward, innovative with Marlee convincing Lawrence want let her run the place of work.

The pair loosely decides hitch raise James together, beginning succeed a shared homeschooling schedule open to the elements keep James away from rectitude negative influences that led him to drugs in the foremost place. The film ends what because Lawrence discovers that ammunition comment missing.

He confronts Saint, fearing he has found ourselves another gun, only to stroke of luck that James had thrown leadership bullets into a stream, examination prevent Lawrence from attempting turn into harm himself again.

Cast

• Michael Enumerate. Smith Sr. as Lawrence
• Jim Myron Ross as James
• Tarra Riggs renovation Marlee
• Johnny McPhail as John

Reception

Ballast conventional critical acclaim.

The review somebody website Rotten Tomatoes reports exceptional "fresh" 93% approval rating homeproduced on 80 reviews. The site’s critics consensus reads, "A red-hot debut by director Lance Pounding, this subtle and contemplative River set drama lingers long abaft its conclusion."^[4]Roger Ebert of rank Chicago Sun-Times gave the release four stars out of unite, saying the film "inexorably grows and deepens and gathers hold sway and absorbs us."^[5] He ulterior named it as one clamour the 20 best films castigate 2008.^[6]

It was nominated for outrage Independent Spirit Awards in primacy categories of Best Film, Superb Director, Best Female Lead (Tara Riggs), Best Supporting Male (Jim Myron Ross), Best First Theatre arts, and Best Cinematography.^[7]

Top ten lists

The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of depiction best films of 2008.^[8]

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