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Roosters (1993)

Roosters poster
Directed by
Robert Milton Young
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
3.8 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family living in the American Southwest deals with conflict and longing. A man returns home after time away, stirring up old tensions with his children and his past.

emotionalintimatefamily-drivenearthygroundedcontemplativebittersweetvisceral

What happens

Roosters is a 1993 American dramatic film with a screenplay by Milcha Sanchez-Scott that is adapted from her play of the same name. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1993 before being released in the United States in 1995. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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