

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.
Direction
Shults splits the film in half like a broken heart.
Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross at their most aching.
Cinematography
Aspect ratio shifts that mirror emotional suffocation.

Director
Trey Edward Shults
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The wrestling scenes were shot with real Florida high school teams; Harrison Jr. trained for months and actually competed.
Shults based the father on his own stepfather's death—a film about the man who raised him, made after he couldn't say goodbye.