A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.
Acting
Tess Harper's face does three acts of tragedy without dialogue.
Cinematography
North Carolina beaches looking lonely on purpose.
Writing
Three storylines that actually earn their intersection.
Director
Tim Kirkman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on true stories from director Tim Kirkman's North Carolina hometown; the Mother's Day timing was deliberately chosen to premiere at Tribeca.
One of the few pre-Brokeback indie films to treat rural gay life with quiet dignity rather than tragedy-as-spectacle—though it still made $89,000 total, because 2005.
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