Ballast
- Release Date
- January 19, 2008
- Director
- Lance Hammer
- Cast
- Micheal J. Smith Sr. , JimMyron Ross , Tarra Riggs , Johnny McPhail , Ventress Bonner , Jimez Alexander
- Runtime
- 96
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Lance Hammer
- Website
- http://www.ballastfilm.com/
Summary
In the cold, winter light of a rural Mississippi Delta township, a man's suicide radically transforms three characters' 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 JamesÂs 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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