2014 · thriller · drama
Hellion
Directed by Kat Candler1h 38m2014
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.
Our read: Hellion (2014) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
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