A late-night diner is the scene for a robbery that leaves everyone dead, how it all came about is at the crux of Last Straw.
Last Straw begins with a massacre at a late-night diner that appears to leave everyone dead. There is much more to this complicated tale of crime and point of view in the feature-length debut from director Alan Scott Neal.
Nancy (Jessica Osborn) is having one of those days. She’s found out that she’s pregnant and is pretty sure who the dad is. She has just been made manager at her father’s diner where the staff doesn’t respect her due to her dad’s apathy. After an incident, she’s left to run the diner overnight. Nancy, alone at the diner, must contend with the vicious homicidal teenagers who have come back looking for vengeance. Or are they? Nothing is as it seems as the night goes on a turns violent.
The star of this film is the adroit screenplay by Taylor Sardoni. Rather than go with a standard issue invasion film, Sardoni’s script takes its time to set up all the pieces, playing with time and point of view before we really know it. There is a sort of empathy (to be specific not sympathy) to the way that things unfold. The sort of crime thriller with bad decisions and worse decisions that gives the film and its characters more complexity than one would initially think.
Those audience members willing to venture into Last Straw will be rewarded with a smarter-than-usual crime film.
Last Straw is in Theaters and On Demand September 20th
A late-night diner is the scene for a robbery that leaves everyone dead, how it all came about is at the crux of Last Straw.
Last Straw begins with a massacre at a late-night diner that appears to leave everyone dead. There is much more to this complicated tale of crime and point of view in the feature-length debut from director Alan Scott Neal.
Nancy (Jessica Osborn) is having one of those days. She’s found out that she’s pregnant and is pretty sure who the dad is. She has just been made manager at her father’s diner where the staff doesn’t respect her due to her dad’s apathy. After an incident, she’s left to run the diner overnight. Nancy, alone at the diner, must contend with the vicious homicidal teenagers who have come back looking for vengeance. Or are they? Nothing is as it seems as the night goes on a turns violent.
The star of this film is the adroit screenplay by Taylor Sardoni. Rather than go with a standard issue invasion film, Sardoni’s script takes its time to set up all the pieces, playing with time and point of view before we really know it. There is a sort of empathy (to be specific not sympathy) to the way that things unfold. The sort of crime thriller with bad decisions and worse decisions that gives the film and its characters more complexity than one would initially think.
Those audience members willing to venture into Last Straw will be rewarded with a smarter-than-usual crime film.
Last Straw is in Theaters and On Demand September 20th
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