After his wife’s death, John Munn takes both his sons, Chris and Tim, to a farm in rural Georgia. The arrival of their bitter, greedy, and violent uncle Deel breaks up the family in an irreparable way. After a tragic event, the brothers run away from home with their uncle in pursuit.

The versatile director of such disparate films as George Washington and Pinapple Express (and Silver Bear winner at Berlinale for Prince Avalanche!), David Gordon Green scored with this unsettling, noir-ish, nitty-gritty look at life in the American South, carried by a remarkably assured Jamie Bell.