When the citizens of a small evangelical town systematically begin committing suicide, a young girl struggling to reconcile her Christian upbringing with her desire to experience the outside world finds her faith put to the ultimate test.
Direction
Papamichael's cinematographer eye makes cheap look eerily beautiful.
Acting
Elizabeth Rice carries the whole damn town on her shoulders.
Director
Phedon Papamichael
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Phedon Papamichael is primarily Alexander Payne's go-to cinematographer — this is one of his only directing gigs, shot between Sideways and The Descendants.
The film quietly rips into the 'satanic panic' evangelical subculture that dominated rural America in the 2000s, where outsider literally equals evil.
US
