With her husband away indefinitely, a young mother struggles to nurture her son in the face of poverty, isolation and incarceration. FLUTTER explores the truest love on earth-the love of a mother and child.
Acting
Lindsay Pulsipher's bone-tired resilience carries every frame.
Cinematography
Oklahoma heat practically radiates off the screen.
Director
Eric Hueber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jesse Plemons filmed this during his Breaking Bad/Fargo breakthrough—his quiet work here as the well-meaning failure David gets overshadowed by his bigger roles.
Director Eric Hueber based the script on real cases of 'economic incarceration' where mothers are jailed for inability to pay fines, a practice later ruled unconstitutional—making this accidentally prescient.
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