Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.
Acting
McConaughey's Mud: charming, broken, absolutely magnetic
Direction
Nichols captures Arkansas river life like nobody else
Cinematography
Sun-drenched, humid, you can practically smell the mud
Director
Jeff Nichols
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nichols wrote the script while homesick for Arkansas; the island is real but location remains secret to protect it.
The film quietly launched Nichols' recurring theme: men who construct elaborate fantasies to avoid emotional reality.
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