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Synopsis: Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jeff Nichols
Production: International Film Circuit
  5 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG-13
Year:
2007
92 min
Website
667 Views


What?

Well... I mean, it seems like

every game I ever been to your...

it's like the other team

is shooting layups.

Here, look at this.

Something I've been working on lately.

We set traps back here...

cut off the incoming pass.

Most of these kids can't

throw all the way down court...

so we bring up our five men.

We cut them off and grab that game.

Hey, Kid.

- What's up, Shampoo?

- Boy.

You talk to Son yet about me

parking my car over there?

Not yet.

Come on man, talk to him.

I'll talk to him

when I wanna talk to him.

Sh*t.

Heard y'all caused a scene

over that funeral?

Yeah?

Yeah, Mark Hayes is goin' on about it.

What'd he say?

He said he might have to

kick a little ass. -Said what?

Something about kicking y'all's ass.

You believe that sh*t?

I tell you what...

If you see him,

you tell him to come find me.

Sh*t, I don't see him!

What if I end up

cheatin' on her, though?

Well, you end up in a situation

where you're seein' two girls.

I guess you just gotta

love both of them.

What?

You gonna eat that?

I don't know, I start thinkin'

'bout houses and kids,

other women...

I see a nice bootie,

I'll still gonna look at it.

Whacha all doin'?

We're gonna see if this thing works.

Well, she runs.

- You found this thing?

- Yeah.

Damn, that's cold!

Cut it, cut it. Cut it!

Cut it.

See that? One fuel line looks

like that you got popped off.

- You know how to do it?

- No.

What are they teachin' you

at that college?

- Nothin' good.

- You hear that, John?

Here, take that.

You'd be better off

stickin' around here this fall.

That's good.

Good, you got it!

Deserves a cold beer.

Hey, y'all should know...

Especially about the sh*t

that happened.

Dad was proud of you.

You know you have

to put a bobber on that?

I know.

Henry, let's go.

Pretty boy,

ready to catch some fish?

What's up, buddy?

Watch out for that net!

I'm just jokin'.

Your daddy was gonna fish without

the bobber, can you believe that?

OK, let's get up on that rock.

OK. Now wheel it in,

just a little bit.

OK, that's good. Now we're

just gonna let it sit out there.

Hey Carter, you want

your sandwich? -No.

I need to clean my van up.

How much do they charge you

to keep that here?

Nothing, I know a guy

who works up here.

I still can't figure

why you sleep in that thing.

Beats payin' rent.

If I had an apartment,

I'd have to get a summer job.

This way it's like early retirement.

It's like... bein' a bum.

- Look at this.

- You got an extra sandwich?

Sh*t, man...

I gotta get her back in the house.

You need to stop gamblin'.

It's not the gamblin'.

I mean, she says that's it,

but that's not it.

She just wants me to...

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Jeff Nichols

Jeff Nichols is an American film director and screenwriter from Little Rock, Arkansas. He studied filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Nichols has directed Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud and Midnight Special. more…

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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