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Feb 28, 2020 · Feb. 28, 2020 12:49 PM PT. Andrew Heckler has waited nearly two decades for this moment. The first-time writer-director has been fighting to get his directorial debut, “Burden,” a redemption ...
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Feb 28, 2020 · Hedlund plays Mike Burden, a young man in a small South Carolina town who has been raised in a culture of hate by a leader of the KKK named Tom Griffin (Tom Wilkinson, giving a nuanced portrayal of how much evil can look like the average guy next door). Griffin and his gang of easily manipulated yes-boys are opening a Redneck KKK Museum in an ...
Feb 28, 2020 · More than 20 years after Heckler first decided to make the film and two years after it won Sundance’s Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic section, “Burden” finally arrives in theaters care ...
Feb 27, 2020 · When Mike falls for Judy (Andrea Riseborough, all hair and gumption), a scrawny single mother who’s not at all down with racism, he’s forced to choose between his woman and the only family he ...
Mar 4, 2020 · The story behind Burden could have made for compelling drama. Even in the most routine of circumstances, Burden feels like a story that was primed to become a drama that could have contended ...
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Mar 18, 2020 · BURDEN: An Unwieldy Load. We, who are devoted to making and analyzing movies, like to think they matter, that they have some influence on the world. Through them we can fight for the changes we wish to see, and maybe, just maybe, make our lives a little bit better. It’s always nice to think your work makes a difference, but we can’t will ...
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Jan 22, 2018 · Hedlund responds with the kind of truly conflicted performance often missing from the genre. This is a man in pain, but he’s also a man who has caused tremendous pain. The magic of “Burden ...
