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Thunder Road (2018)

Thunder Road poster
Directed by
Jim Cummings
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 454 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A police officer copes with the death of his mother while struggling to raise his young daughter. His life unravels as he tries to balance his grief with his responsibilities as a father and a cop.

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What happens

Thunder Road is a 2018 American comedy-drama film directed, written by, and starring Jim Cummings, based on his 2016 short film of the same name. Cummings also served as co-editor, composer and visual effects artist. It also stars Kendal Farr, Nican Robinson, Macon Blair, Jocelyn DeBoer, Chelsea Edmunson, Ammie Leonards, and Bill Wise. It won the Grand Jury Award at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. The production began with a Kickstarter campaign. Unlike the short, the feature version is neither shot in nor edited to appear as a single long-take, but it does employ the use of the technique in select scenes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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