That Evening Sun (film)

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That Evening Sun is a 2009 American independent Southern Gothic rural drama film directed and written by Scott Teems on a screenplay that adapted the 2002 short story, "I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down," by author William Gay. The film was produced by Laura Smith, Terence Barry, and actors Ray McKinnon and Walton Goggins, who both starred in the film. Set in William Gay's native rural Tennessee, the film follows a widowed aging farmer, Abner Meecham, portrayed by Hal Holbrook, who is sent to a retirement home by his trial lawyer son Paul, portrayed by Walton Goggins, after Abner breaks his hip. Meecham sneaks off back to his family farm to discover that his son has leased the property to a "white trash" slacker, Lonzo Choat, portrayed by Ray McKinnon. Meecham is forced to live in a sharecropper's shed when Choat moves his family, including his wife Ludie, portrayed by Carrie Preston, and his defiant teenage daughter Pamela, portrayed by Mia Wasikowska, into the farm's main residence...

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