Holy hell was this a dark film. Joel Kinnaman plays Eliot Baker, a divorced father of two, who takes his kids on a spur of the moment trip to middle-of-nowhere Canada (in the middle of Winter) to shoot guns and learn how to drive. Things take a turn for the worse as Eliot, who struggles to hold his own life together, realizes his kids are going to move away soon. What follows is a series of increasingly bad ideas Eliot uses to hold his crumbling life together.
I hadn't read much about this movie before going to see it, and I was really pleased I took a flier on such a small film (only one theater in the suburbs is even playing it). It was a great, tense movie about family, masculine identities and terrible decisions.
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