‘A Little Prayer’ Sundance Film Review: David Strathairn & Jane Levy Lend Gravitas To Southern Family Melodrama

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Angus MacLachlan wrote 2005’s terrific indie Junebug, which put Amy Adams on the big-time map and earned her a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in a heartbreaking performance. It also put …

). Adding support is Bill’s loving wife, Venida , and a visit from the couple’s grandchild Hadley and their daughter Patti , who we learn is in an unhealthy relationship with Hadley’s downbeat dad and has troubles of her own.

Although just 91 minutes, it takes awhile to get to the crux of the drama, when Bill sees David flirting with an office colleague, Narcedalia , at the weekly employee dance party at the VFW and soon suspects that his son, who also suffers with bouts of PTSD as well also eventually discover, is having an affair on the side, even as he and Tammy have been trying without success to have a baby.

It is all an earnest effort from MacLachlan but, in a tough environment for microscopic indies like this one to break out, could be a tough sell and might need a few “little prayers” of its own to find the right distributor. The cast could help. Producers are MacLachlan, Lauren Vilchik and Max A. Butler. Ramin Bahrani is an executive producer.

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