After a good turn out to see Amazing Grace, the Katherine Film Society now features a debut feature thunder Road next week.
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Jim Cummings writes, directs, and stars in the uncanny tale of a Middle American cop who's a funny, crazy, moving, indelibly authentic lost soul.
In 2016 Jim Cummings won at Sundance with a short film version of Thunder Road, now Cummings stretches his short film into a debut feature movie.
Thunder Road follows Jim Araund (Jim Cummings) as he is getting a divorce and dealing badly with the death of his mother.
Araund is a policeman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, three days a week he takes care of his daughter, Crystal (Kendal Farr), who's in the fourth grade.
Yet he can't connect with her - his affection, though genuine, is met with an indifference he lacks the parenting skills to outfox - and he's completely clueless about the fact that he's about to get royally screwed over by the divorce-industrial complex.
Everything is falling apart for him, yet he's phoning in his life. In Thunder Road, you'll giggle at moments, and you'll also be moved, but mostly you'll know the precise crazy-sane reality of who this man is. We come to root for Arnaud.
KFS has four more movies to see out 2019.
Next week the society jumps back onto independent movies with a cracker of a debut directing effort from the USA.
The movie will be screened on Thursday, October 31 - meet at 6.30pm, movie to screen at 7.
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