Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 05/05/2006(USA
Release Date: 09/26/2006
SubTitles: Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 114 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
A romance between a teenage girl and a thirtysomething drifter takes the young woman down a dangerous and unexpected path in this independent
drama.
Tobe (
Evan Rachel Wood) is a pretty 18-year-old whose father,
Wade (
David Morse), is the sheriff of a town in California's San Fernando Valley.
Tobe is driving to the beach with some friends when she stops at a filling station and meets gas jockey
Harlan (
Edward Norton), who dresses like a cowpoke and claims to have recently relocated to Los Angeles from South Dakota.
Harlan is immediately and obviously taken with
Tobe, and when she asks him to tag along for the day, he impulsively quits his job to follow her.
Tobe and
Harlan soon become a couple, but
Wade is convinced
Harlan is not all he claims to be, and
Tobe begins to wonder if her father might be right when
Harlan takes her horseback riding and their date is cut short after police inform them the horses have been stolen from an rancher (
Bruce Dern) whom
Harlan claims is a friend - and who promptly turns up with a gun to confront both of them, insisting that he has never seen
Harlan before.
Tobe's suspicions grow when
Harlan offers to teach her little brother,
Lonnie (
Rory Culkin), how to shoot using a pair of real .45 revolvers, as his actions become less charming and more worrisome. Leading man
Edward Norton also served as producer on this project.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
