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Full Review | Jun 18, 2020. ... even scriptural, about the struggle among the seven Hayes brothers in Jeff Nichols' remarkable Shotgun Stories. Full Review | Apr 28, 2011.
Oct 26, 2023 · With Shotgun Stories, Jeff Nichols injects independent cinema with a much-needed dose of good, old-fashioned storytelling. But this isn’t merely a throwback to the past. Shunning the tools that have begun to permeate low-budget filmmaking (digital video, handheld cinematography, fast cutting), Nichols has crafted a timeless debut that might ...
Mar 20, 2008 · by Jeremiah Kipp. March 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 ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. An allegory of our times, Shotgun Stories is a tragedy of biblical scale and an intimate family drama. Unlike the more lauded films of last year, which glorified a national preoccupation with bloody deeds, Shotgun Stories is a passionate cry to end the violence and a reminder that we, as free individuals, have the ...
Budget. $250,000 [1] Box office. $168,237 [2] 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.
Shotgun Stories is a quietly powerful drama that examines the destructive nature of revenge and the cycle of violence that can consume entire families. Written and directed by Jeff Nichols, the film follows three brothers—Son (Michael Shannon), Boy, and Kid—who become embroiled in a bitter feud with their estranged half-brothers after the death of their father. The film is set in rural ...
Shotgun stories is slow journey into human relations, family bounds and moral lessons. The main plot may be not that engaging at times but it's balanced by good performance and vivid imagery. Rated 18 Nov 2013
