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Apr 15, 2008 · The most important thing I did for “Shotgun Stories” was to set a start date when I had nothing to go on. It forced me to make decisions and it added momentum to a situation...
- Indiewire
Jun 22, 2024 · The most important achievement of Shotgun Stories is that it kicked off Nichols’ working relationship with Michael Shannon, who has appeared in all of his films thus far.
- Liam Gaughan
- Senior Author
Oct 26, 2023 · Watching Shotgun Stories is to discover an accomplished new voice in American cinema, one that has incorporated vital elements from the past to tell a story that is firmly entrenched in the present. Nichols sets his tone immediately, as the film’s foreboding theme (compliments of Ben Nichols and his band Lucero) accompanies lush widescreen ...
Shotgun Stories. Set in Arkansas, this poetic and powerful film directed by Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) tracks a blood feud that erupts when two sets of half-brothers come to blows at their father's funeral.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Jeff Nichols
- 2008-03-26
Shotgun Stories is a 2007 drama film about a feud between two sets of half-brothers following the death of their father in rural Arkansas. The film was written and directed by Jeff Nichols, and stars Michael Shannon, Barlow Jacobs, Michael Abbott Jr. and Glenda Pannell.
Jun 20, 2024 · Shotgun Stories is a terrific debut from Jeff Nichols that confidently weaves a tragic tale of generational trauma. Michael Shannon is in top form as the leader of this trio of brothers who unknowingly sets off this chain of events.
Mar 20, 2008 · Alternately terse and elegiac, writer-director Jeff Nichols’s Shotgun Stories works best when it observes the lives of its main characters, three lower-class brothers from southeast Arkansas. Beaten-up trucks parked by the river, cotton fields, and plainly furnished living rooms evoke a certain low-key, vaguely melancholy mood, and ...
