• This is description, not evaluation, but the buzz words “southern fried”, “noir”, “pulp”, “sadist” and “white trash” are all apt here
  • Tracy Letts wrote—this was before he was on my radar as a very solid actor
  • Busch light cans and bud bottles in the trailer
  • Premise is mom stole my coke so you ask dad to help you kill her- haha and when you can’t afford to hire the killer you sell your sister to him
  • The entire cast is solid- McConaughey is dominant though. He’s creepy and commanding. Along with 2011’s Bernie this was a beginning of his run through 2011 where he had 8 archiveable films in 4 years. Behind him the seedy, a little touched, and slutty Juno Temple is the next best—Emile Hirsch and Thomas Haden Church seem a little miscast and too clean cut
  • Pit bulls, trailers, strip clubs, incest stuff- perverse, blackly comedic at times—BBQ plays and characters saying “K-Fry-C” and a take on the bewildering family dinner in Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • NC-17
  • Odd violent open ending
  • Recommend but not that close to the top 10 of 2011. It’s extremely entertaining though and critics of the film seem to be either bothered by the content or asking “what’s the point?” to which the answer is, clearly, to make a good entertaining movie (which is well written and acted)