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Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. AIL isnt long until Muds visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.
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Matthew McConaugheys career trajectory has followed some strange currents, ranging from Next Big Dramatic Thing to Romantic Comedy Fixture to, most recently, Killer Supporting Actor. (Plotting a course between A Time to Kill and, say, Magic Mike requires an awful lot of graph paper.) One of the beauties of the superb Mud is how it allows the actor to tap into every aspect of his persona, creating a figure who drifts between hero and rogue with mesmerizing irregularity. His presence, along with a slew of talented character actors (including Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, and the great Joe Don Baker) , help make this movie feel somehow both lived-in and mythic. Set deep within the Arkansas delta, the story follows two boys (Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland) exploring an island in the Mississippi river while searching for a rumored abandoned boat. Once there, they find Mud (McConaughey) , a hermit who claims to be hiding out until he can be reunited with the love of his life (Reese Witherspoon) . As the pair help Mud repair his boat and plan his escape, they begin to receive unsettling hints that there may be much more to the story. Writer-director Jeff Nichols, whose earlier Take Shelter offered up a terrific blend of the mystical and mundane, proves to be equally surefooted here, delivering a clear-eyed Boys Adventure story with some tantalizing hints of Southern Gothic creeping in around the edges. Like most good yarns, Mud may meander a bit, but by the time the final scene rolls around, the digressions and offbeat character moments have combined to make this movie feel mighty special, in a distinctly Southern fashion. A tale in which a boy named Neckbone exists is one that both Flannery OConnor and Harper Lee wouldve enthusiastically embraced. (Andrew Wright)
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Sam Shepard was born in 1943 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. He moved to New York from California just as the off-Broadway theatre scene was emerging. He has written more than forty plays, of which elev en have won 'Obie' awards, besides collections of stories, prose writing and screenplays. His plays include Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, and States of Shock. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Pa lm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival and he directed his own screenplay, Far North, in 1988. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
