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BALLAST (2008)

Verenigde Staten
Drama
96 minuten

geregisseerd door Lance Hammer
met Micheal J. Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross en Tarra Riggs

De twaalfjarige James woont met zijn alleenstaande moeder Marlee in een klein stadje in de Mississippi-delta. Zijn moeder werkt lange dagen om voldoende geld te verdienen; James is veel op zichzelf aangewezen. Als hij een groep tieners leert kennen, wil James graag met ze bevriend raken. Om indruk te maken stelt hij zijn brommer ter beschikking om af en toe drugs mee te vervoeren. Maar als James het slachtoffer dreigt te worden van een gewelddadige actie van zijn nieuwe vrienden, vlucht Marlee met haar zoon. Ze krijgen onderdak bij ene Lawrence. Marlee kent hem nog van vroeger, maar wat er in het verleden tussen hen speelde, was nog niet helemaal uitgesproken.

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imdb.com/title/tt1153690/
User Rating: 7.2/10 546 votes

Studio: Kino International


DVD Release Date: November 10, 2009


Director: Lance Hammer


Description:
A double prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2008, Ballast is a stunningly evocative story of personal catastrophe and communal redemption.

In the cold winter light of the Mississippi Delta, three lonely people stumble under the weight of a shared tragedy. Lawrence (Micheal J. Smith, Sr.) is paralyzed with grief after the loss of his twin brother. Twelve-year-old James (Jimmyron Ross) drifts into the perilous orbit of local teenagers while his single mother, Marlee (Tarra Riggs), is too exhausted from her menial job to interpret the clues. When sudden violence forces mother and son to flee their home in the night, they alight desperately on Lawrence?s property. Though this provides safe harbor, it rekindles the fury of a bitter, longstanding conflict. Writer-director Lance Hammer and his gifted cast of local, non-professional actors have created an unflinching, profoundly humane story of lost souls forced by circumstance to seek solace in the most unlikely of places.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 6.77 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 96 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 | Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): English DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English | French | Spanish



DISC FEATURES:

# Director supervised high-definition digital transfer from the 35mm interpositive.
# Ballast Scene Development, a 37-minute making-of feature charting the evolution of several scenes through the improvisational conflict sessions and two-month rehearsal process that gave form to the final film.
# Original theatrical trailer.
# Optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.


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