COLD IN JULY
by Jim Mickle
Synopsis: Cold In July tells the story of Richard Dane, a small town frame builder from East Texas who is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He then meets Ben Russel, a rough ex-con and the father of the man Dane shot, who is hell-bent on avenging his son’s death. But small town corruption and paranoia turn these bitter enemies into unlikely allies, as the two guilt-stricken fathers begin a search for truth, aided by Dane’s tough-minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the backwoods of Houston. Before it’s all over, they uncover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.
Cast: Michael Chall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson
2014 / USA / 93 min / English
Produced by BSM Studio, Belladonna Production / In association with Backup Media and Paradise City
By the director of We Are What We Are and Stake Land
“Brilliantly paced, genuinely tense and unpredictable”
— Time Out
“A superior piece of Texas pulp fiction”
— Variety
“Absorbing and memorable”
— The Playlist
