So after troubles with Hank and nasty weather threatening their year’s income, they discuss the possibility of moving north and starting over. In the meantime, the crop has been battered by a heavy storm that jeopardizes the Chandlers’ welfare, and Jesse and Kathleen get a visit from a Michigan cousin who tells of grand stories working on the assembly line. Luke is warned not to talk once again, and he’s torn between lying to protect his hide and the truth. The Spruills are welcome, but their biggest liability is hothead son Hank (Pablo Schreiber), a violent monster who kills a man in town after a pointless brawl and who scares Luke, who saw the whole thing, into silence.Īfter seeing his sister liplocked with one of the hired hands down by the creek, Hank goes nuts and challenges the suitor to a fight. Luke grows up quickly in the summer of 1952, when a group of Mexican migrant workers and the mountain-dwelling Spruills converge on the Chandler farm to pick cotton for hire. His family is like a Norman Rockwell portrait, with doting mom Kathleen (Arija Bareikis), Atticus Finch-ish dad Jesse (Robert Sean Leonard) and grandparents that are wise and wonderful beyond belief (Scott Glenn and Melinda Dillon). The Arkansas tale blends autobiographical elements with generational lore as it revolves around 10-year-old Luke Chandler (Logan Lerman).
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