This is the sort of movie that has intellectual study, of you guessed it, class in America bent to it. The writer is definitely intelligent, but not intelligent enough to avoid writing a lame pointless movie. There was a constant voice over by Sammy narrating his awful life and how crappy society is to people like him, Julia Garner did the same grossed out dirty look throwing smart but white trash as Jamalee Merridew, the same act she did all through the 4 seasons of Ozark which came after this movie, so she wasn't typecasted in that role when they filmed this movie. Jake Weary plays the main character drifter jail bug Sammy and he did the best job. By then he was already doing Animal Kingdom as Deran, the gay thoughtful crime family brother who bought a bar. Ok we get it, being poor and in and out of jail in some rural Canadian mountain town pretending to be Oklahoma is a bad deal. But playing stupid games like breaking into nicer homes with her gay brother Jason just to pretend to be rich is even dumber. That is how the siblings met Sammy, whom they then invited home to be part of their "gang".
They all make bad decisions like smoke all the time and not even bothering to shut the screen doors on Jam's run down trailer. Or break glass bowls on the kitchen floor when barefoot.
Things come to a head when Jam tries to get a job as a waitress at the country club only to be thrown out by the guards there. Obviously she wasn't the right fit for the local hick town high society because she lives in Venus Hollow where all the white trash lives. While we never saw her interview, this created a fight outside as Sammy stood up for Jamalee by punching out a guard only to be beaten down by a broom wielding janitor. Why the club couldn't interview her then later turn her down was supposed to signify how awful these people are I guess. This then created an act of retaliation on the part of the siblings and Sammy who kidnap some pigs at night and get them to root up some greens at the bad old country club then drive around in golf carts having a grand old time.
Then things take a turn for the worse as her gay brother Jason first turns up missing then found dead in a pond under very suspicious circumstances. It was established he was murdered for what, some minor vandalism, and the local cop who had a tense relationship with the family. Did I forget to tell you that Jam and Jason's mom Bev was the town prostitute who took a fancy to Sammy too? The cop offered them some "blood money" and then the narrative degenerated into a stupid conclusion that really wasn't a conclusion. Obviously it was meant to signify the pointlessness of their lives or something, or the viewers who stuck with it.
They all make bad decisions like smoke all the time and not even bothering to shut the screen doors on Jam's run down trailer. Or break glass bowls on the kitchen floor when barefoot.
Things come to a head when Jam tries to get a job as a waitress at the country club only to be thrown out by the guards there. Obviously she wasn't the right fit for the local hick town high society because she lives in Venus Hollow where all the white trash lives. While we never saw her interview, this created a fight outside as Sammy stood up for Jamalee by punching out a guard only to be beaten down by a broom wielding janitor. Why the club couldn't interview her then later turn her down was supposed to signify how awful these people are I guess. This then created an act of retaliation on the part of the siblings and Sammy who kidnap some pigs at night and get them to root up some greens at the bad old country club then drive around in golf carts having a grand old time.
Then things take a turn for the worse as her gay brother Jason first turns up missing then found dead in a pond under very suspicious circumstances. It was established he was murdered for what, some minor vandalism, and the local cop who had a tense relationship with the family. Did I forget to tell you that Jam and Jason's mom Bev was the town prostitute who took a fancy to Sammy too? The cop offered them some "blood money" and then the narrative degenerated into a stupid conclusion that really wasn't a conclusion. Obviously it was meant to signify the pointlessness of their lives or something, or the viewers who stuck with it.