14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.
Director(s): Paul Dano
Writer(s): Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan
Producer(s): Jake Gyllenhaal, Oren Moverman, Riva Marker, Ann Ruark, Alex Saks, Paul Dano, Andrew Duncan
Stephen Campbell
**_Old-fashioned filmmaking with a progressive theme_** > _She looked at me and the expression on her face was an expression of dislike, one I hadn't seen before but knew right away. Later I would ...