A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.
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Micheal J. Smith Sr. as Lawrence
JimMyron Ross as James
Tarra Riggs as Marlee
Johnny McPhail as John
Ventress Bonner as Teen
Jimez Alexander as Teen
Lance Hammer Writer
Mark Johnson Executive Producer
Lance Hammer Producer
Lol Crawley Director of Photography
Lance Hammer Director
Andrew Adamson Executive Producer
Canada 10 November 2009
United Kingdom 25 April 2011
United States 10 November 2009
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A double prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2008 ...
Official trailer for the film "Ballast" winner of the Directing and Cinematography awards in the 2008 Sundance film festival.
A drama set in the Mississippi delta where one man's suicide affects three people's lives.
A drama set in the Mississippi delta where one man's suicide affects three people's lives. Director: Lance Hammer Writer: Lance Hammer Stars: Micheal J. Smith ...
A single mother(Tarra Riggs)and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an ...
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2008:
15 May 2008
A human story unfolds when detectives aggravated by a major bust gone wrong are forced to deal with a tormented man thrown into the cage after urinating on the Mayor's limo.
22 May 2008
Don Muthu Swami is one of Bombay's most fearsome gangsters. On his deathbed, his father forces him to make a promise: that from now on he will lead a decent life.
01 February 2008
Three small films for as many reflections on the senses and human knowledge. In the first episode, Emmer reviews with anthological and didactic intent the precepts of ancient philosophy, from Greek to Roman civilization; in the second, working as he did at the beginning of his career on a vast repertoire of pictorial and non-pictorial images, he analyzes the “history of the gaze” in the visual arts, from prehistoric graffiti to medieval altarpieces, from Impressionist and Cubist paintings to modern-day advertising posters; finally, in the third, recounting with irony and lightness a day of solitude in his mountain home, he reflects on the intellectual thinking of writers and great thinkers, relating to his own individual experience as much the words of oral tradition and popular culture as the writings of geniuses such as Shakespeare, Spinoza or Gogol.
30 August 2008
A documentary on Paul Watson, who takes the law into his own hands on the open seas, confronting, by any nonviolent means necessary, the hunters who indiscriminately slaughter whales, seals and sharks, along with complicit governments and environmental organizations.
26 June 2008
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE.
30 April 2008
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
01 January 2008
In this soulful surf documentary, filmmaker Cyrus Sutton shadows five different surfers, capturing the ups and downs of their daily routines -- much like the ebb and flow of the waves they ride with such passion.
10 December 2008
A beautiful grad student named Tara Simmons is abducted by aliens in a flying saucer. Four days later she finds herself back on earth at the top secret government facility Areola 51, which documents sexual encounters with aliens.
01 March 2008
A gonzo black comedy with six intertwining stories set in the streets of Tokyo about the ongoing battle between the Internet generation and the older generation.
22 January 2008
Director and actor Ray O'Neill presents the movie Greater Threat in the year (2008). the movieis an action-crime film starring Ray Goodwin as Ray Kieffer, Ray O'Neill as Mike Johnson, Tamas Menyhart as Nicolai, Leeann Johnson as Carol Green, Chuck French as Steve Mancini, Caitlin Noah as Marie Kieffer, Jason McAleer as Sachon, Cheryl Goodlin as Eileen Conway, Ray Dippolito as Judge Overton, David Schramm as Ivan, Mikel Mahoney as Santos DeJesus.
16 October 2008
Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.
14 March 2008
It has been over 20 years since Maren Bertram left her parents' farm after a bad argument with her father Maximilian.
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