Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 73'


It’s another summer in Glen Allan, Mississippi, for 14-year-old Robbie Hendrick. His mother has gone away, leaving him to take care of his step-brother Fess on his own. But the boy still dreams of having a true family. While Robbie and Fess pass the days together, their older brother, Lucas, returns home. In the meantime, their mother writes to them, promising she’ll come home soon but the days pass and their mother doesn’t appear. And the social services will soon be coming to take Fess away.

 

“Robbie is a trouble-maker, a thief and a poor student; not the kind of character we imagine could inspire us. But he has goodness, truth and devotion to his loved ones – the kind of  which any of us can only dream to have. Robbie will surprise you just as he does me every day. I want to share his story and pass it on so we can all learn together from Robbie what it takes to make life hopeful and true and our attitude strong, looking to the sky when all around us seems dark and cold.” 

Biography

film director

Matthew Gordon

Matthew Gordon (Baltimore, MD, USA, 1970) graduated from Middlebury College in 1993 and taught in Europe for two years before making his first documentary, Novi Sad, in 2000. The graduating short film he made in 2005 for his degree in directing from the American Film Institute, The Honeyfields, participated at various festivals and won numerous prizes. He has lived in New York, Los Angeles and Texas, and has made various documentaries for TV. He also collaborated on the production of many TV series, such as The First 48, Dallas SWAT and Resident Life. The Dynamiter is his first feature-length fiction film.

 

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia/filmography

Novi Sad (doc., 2000), The Honeyfields (cm, doc., 2005), The Dynamiter (2011).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director

Matthew Gordon 

sceneggiatura/screenplay

Brad Ingelsby

fotografia/cinematography

Jeffrey Waldron

montaggio/film editing

Kevin Abrams, Brandon Boyd

scenografia/production design

Michael Scherschel

costumi/costume design

Shareen Chehade

musica/music

Casey Immoor

interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters

William Patrick Ruffin (Robbie Hendrick), John Alex Nunnery (Fess Hendrick), Patrick Rutherford (Lucas Hendrick), Ciara McMillian (Mamie), Lane Rogers (il preside/Principal Curtis), Joyce Baldwin (Gimmel), Debra Toth (Mothe), Braxton Gordon (Timmy Feller), Caleb Chambers (Lard Ass Gagne), Casey Brown (Willie Buck)

produttori/producers

Matthew Gordon, Kevin Abrams, Nate Tuck, Amile Wilson, Merilee Holt, Art Jones, Mike Jones

produzione/production

Elysium Films, Fairtrade Films

vendita all’estero/world sales

Elysium Films

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