Stranger Says:

Years after making a decision that tore his family apart, a haunted man (Michael Abbott Jr.) ventures back to his tiny Kentucky hometown. Director Rachel Lambert’s debut has some definite similarities with the work of Jeff Nichols (who produced), including an eye for convincingly lived-in detail and the sense that even the bit players have their own stories to tell. Scenes like the perfectly handled finale, meanwhile, suggest that she also has her own trails to blaze. Very well done, with a few unexpectedly lovely moments of grace, and some real, scary heat when the tightly clenched characters finally lay down their cards.