Shotgun Stories

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Shotgun Stories is a 2007 American independent Southern Gothic revenge drama film written and directed by Jeff Nichols and produced by David Gordon Green, Lisa Muskat, and Nichols. Nichols' feature directorial debut, the film focuses on two sets of redneck half-brothers in rural southeastern Arkansas who start a feud against each other following the death of their shared biological father, an abusive alcoholic who leaves his first family and later starts a second family after getting sober and becoming a Christian. The first set of brothers, are led by Son Hayes (portrayed by Michael Shannon), a working-class fish farmer, whereas the second set of brothers are led by Cleaman Hayes (portrayed by Michael Abbott Jr.), a middle-class cotton and soybean farmer. Son decides to crash the funeral of the father who abandoned him and his two brothers, Kid (portrayed by Barlow Jacobs) and Boy (portrayed by Douglas Ligon), and berate his father in front of the attendees. This provokes Cleaman and his...

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