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Ballast
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | October 1, 2008 |
| Running time: | 97 minutes |
| Cast: | Michael J. Smith Sr., Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail, Ventress Bonner |
| Director: | Lance Hammer |
| Producer: | Nina Parikh |
| Writer: | Lance Hammer |
| Distributor: | Alluvial Film Company |
Description: In the cold, winter light of a rural Mississippi Delta township, a man's suicide radically transforms three character's lives and throws off-balance what has long been a static arrangement among them. Marlee is a single mother struggling to scratch a living for herself and James, her 12-year-old son, who has begun to stumble under drug and violence pressures. So when the opportunity to seek safe harbor at a new home arises, she grabs it, though the property is shared by Lawrence, a man with whom Marlee has feuded bitterly since James's birth. With circumstances thrusting them into proximity, a subtle interdependence and common purpose emerge for Marlee and Lawrence as they navigate grief, test new waters, and tentatively move forward.
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