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Ballast

2008 · 96 min

A quiet, heavy immersion into grief and poverty, where small gestures carry the weight of survival and fragile connection.

Overview
A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • isolation
  • family
  • survival
  • politics
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Lance Hammer
Written by
Lance Hammer
Starring
Micheal J. Smith Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail, Ventress Bonner, Jimez Alexander
Cinematography
Lol Crawley
Runtime
96 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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